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Leader of the Oriental Revolution and Protector of the Free Peoples (1815–1820). In the Instructions of the Year XIII and the 1815 Land Regulation, he advocated republican confederalism against Buenos Aires centralism, civil and religious liberty, and popular agrarian reform.
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José Gervasio Artigas leans further toward federal than 96% of the 574 personalities in the catalog.
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On Morality, José Gervasio Artigas sits practically at the catalog median.
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Río de la Plata federalist tradition founded by José Gervasio Artigas in the League of the Free Peoples (1813–1820). It advocates republican confederalism of sovereign provinces against Buenos Aires centralism, civil and religious liberty, tariff protection, and popular land reform.
Political project developed by Abdias Nascimento from the history of Brazil's quilombos. It advocates racial equality, Afro-Brazilian self-determination, participatory democracy, a cooperative economy and land held for collective use.
Current that values community bonds, traditions, and the common good above individualism, holding that justice and identity arise from life in community and the responsibilities people share.
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Techno-MonarchismFar-Right36%
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Under Hugo Chávez, from 1999 to 2013, Venezuela lived '21st-century socialism', with a new constitution, oil-funded social programs, nationalizations, currency and price controls, deep polarization, confrontation with the United States and power concentrated in the president.
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