Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Or, Venezuela Revisited

When I first wrote a review-article for DISSENT on Venezuela,* I advanced the idea that the Betancourt “democratic” revolution, which enjoyed enthusiastic U.S. support, was really the beginning of a genuine “counter-revolutionary” movement in Latin America. I took it that what the Alliance for Progress offered as an alternative to the Castro revolution was a determined effort to transform the social, economic and political structures of a nation, without passing throug...