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Roberto Hernández Montoya

Escritor, Presidente de la Fundación Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos (Venezuela).

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From Chavez’s Alleged Anti-Semitism to the Threat against Privileges

by Roberto Hernández Montoya

Caracas (Venezuela) | 12 April 2006

An intellectual is someone who responds to strategic questions, life, death, and love. And yes, there are intellectuals among those who signed the January 21 document, “against the anti-Semitic references in official Venezuelan discourse” (El NACIONAL). But now intellectuals confront a more (...)

How to prevent that revolution degenerates into government

by Roberto Hernández Montoya

Caracas (Venezuela) | 28 September 2004

Once upon a time a general of the Mexican Revolution declared, dispirited, “Revolution degenerated into government.”
All revolutions have faced the same danger: either they fail, like Béla Kun in Hungary in 1919 or they degenerate into government as did Joseph Stalin or like the (...)