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The aim of this CMI Working Paper is to provide an overview of the ideological and political foundation for the approximation between the civilian politics and the military throughout recent Venezuelan history.

Chávez died in April 2013, but the doctrine of a civil-military alliance has been kept alive under the presidency of his successor, Nicholas Maduro. Concurrently, the Armed Forces were also attributed a more politicized role as the custodians of national sovereignty vis-à-vis foreign meddling in the country. This doctrine was underpinned by the political thinking of Simón Bolívar, the country’s national hero from the Wars of Independence.

Being a former career military himself, a central tenant of Chávez’s political philosophy was to craft what was called a “civil-military alliance” ( una alianza cívica-militar), expanding the military’s role and active involvement in the execution of public policies in the name of national development. When Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) came to power in Venezuela in 1998, the military was bestowed with a new -and controversial -role in society.

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