The War of All the People The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism / Jon B. Perdue ; foreword by Stephen Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perdue, Jon B., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--Latin America.

Radicalism.

Latin America--Politics and government--1980-.

Latin America.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The War of All the People elucidates the ideological and political war against the United States, capitalism, and the widely accepted tenets of modernity. Spearheading this war are Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, "revolutionary" leaders who have forged an active alliance hell-bent on destroying the established order in the developed world.Adopted as the operative name of his war on U.S. "imperialism," the "War of All the People" is Chávez's plan to supplant American dominance in the hemisphere with "twenty-first-century socialism." Although U.S. presidents and policym

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

A brief history of terrorist collaboration

Revolution makes strange bedfellows

Step-by-step subversion

Dismantling democracy from within

State propaganda and informational hegemony

Controlling the vote

Exporting the revolution

Revolutionaries with benefits

Judicial warfare and Latin American demilitarization

The "Hungarian complex": civilian militias as Praetorian guards

Building the revolutionary farm team

The promotion of disorder

The merging of hatred: anti-Semitism in Latin America

The threat to America's "soft underbelly".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-254) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-59797-803-5

OCLC:

810083301