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Andean Group - February 2012 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Capriles and Chávez both look to Lulismo for 2012
‘Lulismo’, the brand of social democracy so successfully implemented by Lula da Silva and the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) in Brazil since 2003, is Latin America’s new religion. So much so that both candidates in Venezuela’s 2012 presidential election are seeking to cover themselves in it. Henrique Capriles Radonski, the opposition candidate, cites Lula as his model and offers ‘Work, Order and Progress for all’ (Brazil’s national motto is ‘Ordem e progresso’). Capriles has two well-known Brazilian public relations specialists on his campaign team. President Hugo Chávez, who has spent 13 years seeking to introduce - in increasingly autocratic fashion – ‘21st Century Socialism’ to the capitalist petro-state has gone one better. He has contracted as a campaign advisor Lula’s top electoral strategist, João Santana, who oversaw the election of Lula’s successor, President Dilma Rousseff, in 2010 and went on to advise President Ollanta Humala’s campaign in Peru in 2011. Santana was due in Caracas as we went to press in the final week of February, along with, reportedly, José Dirceu, a scion of the Brazilian Left and a veteran PT tactician.
- Capriles and Chávez both look to Lulismo for 2012
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- BOLIVIA: Another electoral embarrassment threatens
- BOLIVIA: Drug deal breakthrough
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: BOLIVIA
- COLOMBIA: Facing a familiar battle
- COLOMBIA: Building a new country
- ECUADOR: Media battle is part of wider war
- ECUADOR: Counting on Chinese credit
- PERU: Conga festers in the background
- PERU: Government is reminded of security challenges
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: PERU
- War on drugs – less funds, more debate