The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism

The War of All the People elucidates the ideological and political war against the United States, capitalism, and the widely accepted tenets of modernity. Spearheading this war are Hugo Chivez of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, OC revolutionaryOCO 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. OC imperialism, OCO the OC War of All the PeopleOCO is ChivezOCOs plan to supplant American dominance in the hemisphere with OC twenty-first-century socialism.OCO Although U.S. presidents and policymakers have treated ChivezOCOs 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. ChivezOCOs ability to thwart sanctions on Iran by providing oilOCoand possibly uraniumOCoto the corrupt regime makes his bluster more sinister than the simple rant of a Third World caudillo. The War of All the People goes beyond merely pondering the unlikely alliance between seemingly antithetical cultures. Scholars, students, and policymakers will learn about the long history of cooperation among Middle Eastern and Latin American terrorist groups, including the radical mecca of Algiers in the 1960s, where Che Guevara and Am lcar Cabral both resided, and the Tricontinental Conference in Cuba in 1966, which first brought Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat together