'You can't fight the state': How Cuba taught Venezuela to crack down on its own military
Angus Berwick, Reuters
CARACAS (Reuters) - In December 2007, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez suffered his first defeat at the polls.
Although still wildly popular among the working class that had propelled him to power nearly a decade earlier, voters rejected a referendum that would have enabled him to run for re-election repeatedly.
Stung, Chavez turned to a close confidant, according to three former advisers: Fidel Castro. The aging Cuban leader had mentored Chavez years before the Venezuelan became president, when he was still best known for leading a failed coup.
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