Hugo Chávez și diplomația petrolului
Hugo Chávez and Oil Diplomacy

Summary/Abstract: This article evaluates the way in which the “oil diplomacy” was used by President Hugo Chavez in order to export his leftist ideology. The most notable part of this quite long chapter of regional ideological cooperation is ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas), a tool which was imagined as a potential counterweight to the Free Trade Agreement proposed by the United States. We present some of the associated initiatives, like Petroamerica, Petrocaribe, Petrosur or Petroandina, which try to create a mechanism of energetic regional integration and how Chavez used Venezuela’s oil wealth not only to shape and implement muli-billion dollar programs for the poor, but also for helping ideological allies like Cuba, Bolivia or Ecuador.

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