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Dictatorship & Politics: Intrigue, Betrayal, and Survival in Venezuela, 1908-1935

Dictatorship & Politics: Intrigue, Betrayal, and Survival in Venezuela, 1908-1935

McBeth, Brian S.

Hardcover

Series: Kellogg Institute Democracy and Development

General Political ScienceSouth American History

ISBN10: 0268035105
ISBN13: 9780268035105
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 592
Weight: 2.08
Height: 1.51 Width: 6.49 Depth: 9.35
Language: English

Dictatorship and Politics presents the first major study of General Juan Vicente Gómez's regime in Venezuela from 1908 to 1935 and the efforts of Gómez's enemies to overthrow him during his twenty-seven years in power. In this reappraisal of the Gómez regime, Brian S. McBeth demonstrates that Gómez's success in withstanding opponents' attacks was not only the result of his political acumen and ruthless methods of oppression. The political disagreements, personal rivalries, financial difficulties, occasional harassment by foreign powers, and at times plain bad luck of his opponents, usually in exile, were important contributing factors in the failure of their plots to overthrow him. In examining the opposition to the Gómez dictatorship, McBeth also intentionally removes the politics of oil from the center stage of the regime's foreign relations and instead focuses on the tolerance and intolerance by foreign governments of the exiles' activities.

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