Lope de Aguirre, Hugo Chávez, and the Latin American Left

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Alfredo Ignacio Poggi. Lope de Aguirre, Hugo Chávez, and the Latin American Left

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

Four Cardinal Directions on a Theoretical Map of Aguirre’s Expedition

Situating Reason

The Linguistic Turn

Post-Metaphysical Thinking

Overcoming Logocentrism

Notes

Descending into the Depths of the Anti-Imperial Imaginary

Entrance and First Circle (Limbo)

Second Circle (Lust)

Third (Gluttony) and Fourth (Greed) Circles

Fifth Circle (Anger)

The Wall and the Sixth Circle (Heresy)

Seventh Circle (Violence)

Eighth Circle (Fraud)

Ninth Circle (Treason)

Notes

Hell

The Condemnation of Anger

A History of Ideas about Mercy

The Condemnation of Mercy

Notes

Purgatory

Carlos Arturo Torres and. the First Absolution of Aguirre

Ispizúa and the Second Acquittal of Aguirre

Notes

Heaven

Lope de Aguirre and Simón Bolívar, Princes of Freedom

Lope de Aguirre and Che Guevara, Guerrillas without Mercy

Notes

Latin American Revelation

Identity, Anti-Positivism, and the Beginning of Liberationist Thought

Marxism, Dependency, and the Heyday of Liberationist Thought

Neoliberalism, Postmodernism, and the Decline of Liberationist Thought

The Pink Tide, Decoloniality, and the Resurrection of Liberationist Thought

Lope de Aguirre and Hugo Chávez, a Revolutionary Lineage

Notes

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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In 1998, when I arrived in Venezuela as a teenager, I learned that a military officer lived on the third floor of my building. He was controversial, yet popular. He had once participated in a failed military coup, wound up in prison, and was eventually set free in an act of political amnesty by Rafael Calderas, who was president of Venezuela at the time. My neighbor’s name was Hugo Chávez. When my mother and I met him in our elevator, we never suspected that he would become a world leader.

It so happened that during those months, I was reading the first book I ever bought for pleasure: The Diary of Che Guevara. As a good Argentine teenager, I was drawn to this soldier’s romantic life fighting U.S. imperialism in order to bring about social equality and the unity of the Latin American continent. Che’s furious personality had turned him into a superhero who stood up against all adversity and embarked on the most fantastic adventures. Those pages found an echo in Chávez’s speeches, which I started watching on T.V. He kicked off his presidential campaign with a vindictive speech in a country beset by its own alarming social inequality. He rapidly seduced a people tired of corruption and of a neoliberal bureaucracy associated with the United States.

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Ingrid Galster, Aguirre o la posteridad arbitraria: La rebelión del conquistador vasco Lope De Aguirre en historiografía y ficción histórica (1561-1992) (Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2011), 745.

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