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COHA Opinion: Brazilian Election
COHA Opinion: Brazilian Election: What Does South American Giant Want in Post-Lula Era?
In a scene from my first book, Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006), I discuss how Brazil became an ally of Venezuela during a key moment of heightened political tensions. It was December, 2002 and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was facing down an economically damaging lock-out of the oil sector launched by the right wing political opposition. The lock-out capped a tumultuous political year for Chávez: just eight months earlier, he had scarcely managed to face down a coup d’etat launched by pro-U.S. elements within the country’s military and business elite.
As a result
of the lock-out, Venezuela was obliged to import gasoline
for domestic use. Chávez, who at the time was locked in a
bitter political struggle with the Bush White in Washington,
desperately needed allies. Fortunately, just across the
border Venezuela found an important diplomatic supporter in
Brazil. In a clear sign that the South American giant was in
no mood to cooperate with U.S. efforts designed to isolate
Venezuela, Brazil shipped half a million barrels of oil to
the Chávez government.
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This analysis was prepared by Former Senior Research Fellow Nikolas Kozloff
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