The war of all the people the nexus of Latin American radicalism and Middle Eastern terrorism Perdue, Jon B. 1967- creator text bibliography dcu 2012 1st ed. monographic eng print xv, 263 pages ; 24 cm This book elucidates the ideological and political war against the United States, capitalism, and the widely accepted tenets of modernity. Spearheading this war are Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, two "revolutionary" leaders who have forged an active alliance hell-bent on destroying the established order in the developed world. Adopted as the operative name of his war on U.S. "imperialism," the "War of All the People" is Hugo Chávez's plan to supplant U.S. dominance in the hemisphere with "twenty-first century socialism." Although U.S. presidents and policymakers have treated Chávez's antics with benign neglect thus far, his 2010 missile accord with a soon-to-be nuclear Iran has escalated the threat to an unavoidable level. Chávez's ability to thwart sanctions on Iran by providing oil, and possibly uranium, to the corrupt regime makes his bluster more sinister than the simple rant of a third world caudillo. The unlikely alliance between seemingly antithetical cultures is illustrated in the long history of cooperation between Middle Eastern and Latin American terrorist groups, from the radical mecca of Algiers in the 1960s, where Che Guevara and Amilcar Cabral both resided, to the Tricontinental Conference in Cuba in 1966, which first brought Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat together. Preface -- Introduction -- A brief history of terrorist collaboration -- Revolution makes strange bedfellows -- Step-by-step subversion -- Dismantling democracy from within -- State propaganda and informational hegemony -- Controlling the vote -- Exporting the revolution -- Revolutionaries with benefits -- Judicial warfare and Latin American demilitarization -- The "Hungarian complex": civilian militias as Praetorian guards -- Building the revolutionary farm team -- The promotion of disorder -- The merging of hatred: anti-Semitism in Latin America -- The threat to America's "soft underbelly." Jon B. Perdue ; foreword by Stephen Johnson. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-254) and index. cl----- Radicalism Latin America Latin America Politics and government 1980- Politics and government Radicalism Latin America Since 1980 fast HN110.5.Z9 R365 2012 303.48/4 9781597977043 1597977047 9781597978033 1597978035 2012016051 DLC 120427 20170926145535.0 in00003733224 eng