El discurso político populista. El caso de Hugo Chávez en el programa televisivo "Aló Presidente"

Aquest treball aprofundeix sobre les diferents concepcions del terme populisme i les característiques d'Hugo Chávez com a líder polític per analitzar cinc episodis consecutius del programa televisiu ‘Aló Presidente’ i després d'aplicar la metodologia de Teun A. van Dijk sobre el discurs ideològic, demostrar com el comandant usava els ressorts populistes per defensar les polítiques dutes a terme pel govern bolivarià.

Estado-seguridad y fuerzas armadas en la era de la globalización: una aproximación a Venezuela

Nos proponemos analizar el proceso de globalización y su impacto e inferencias para el Estado, la soberanía y las fuerzas armadas, como categorías y ordenes respectivamente. De manera que analizamos el papel tradicional que ha tenido el Estado y las Fuerzas Armadas y su replanteo dentro de la globalización. Asimismo, abordamos los cambios que acusan las fuerzas armadas en Venezuela a partir de 1998 y 1999 como consecuencia del triunfo del presidente Hugo Chávez y de la Constitución Bolivariana de Venezuela de 1999 como marcos políticos y jurídicos que inciden en la concepción de las fuerzas armadas en Venezuela.

Reversal of opinion: the implications of the work of Acemoglu and Robinson for marxist thought

This paper describes the implications for Marxist thought of the work of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. In the first two periods of this they explained how the rise of democracy brought prosperity to Europe  and why the same process had not worked in Latin America because of the possibility of coups. The implication is that mass poverty can better be alleviated by safeguarding democracy rather than moving to socialism. In the last period A and R have formalized doubts about the efficacy of democracy in this role. The implication here is that Marxists should work to find a system of government that is immune to elite dominance. Hugo Chávez is taken as an example.

Venezuelan economic laboratory. The Case of the altruistic economy of Felipe Pérez Martí

Felipe Pérez Martí, who was the Venezuelan Minister of Planning and Development in the government of Hugo Chávez, proposes an economic model that he calls the altruistic economy or fourth way, which leads cooperative game theory to its logical extremes postulating a pure communism. Here we sustain that, first, it is impossible in the model of Pérez Martí to marginally allocate non-primary goods to those most in need or who most value them, facing a problem of defective economic calculation, and second, in order to achieve equality, he would have to replace his atomic local planners by a central planner, who would be unable to overcome the problem of imperfect and and incomplete information.