Carlos Andres Perez social democrat
their words, not mine:
The Committee of the Socialist International for Latin America and the Caribbean regretted the death of Carlos Andrés Pérez, who was vice president of the Socialist International.
The president of the regional body and former president of Panama, Martín Torrijos, said that "by supporting the Sandinista revolution, the Panamanian demands in the struggle for the elimination of a foreign colonial enclave and the return of the Canal," among other significant regional causes, Pérez showed his Latin Americanist vocation.
The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) conveyed its condolences to the family of Pérez, whom they described as a key person "in the history of the 20th century in Latin America and of the democratic socialism in America and the world."
In a statement, the party of Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said that Carlos Andres Pérez must be paid tribute for his "significant service to democracy and Venezuela," and for his very important contribution "to strengthening the Socialist International," Efe reported.
The PSOE stressed that it will always remember the social democratic leader "for his friendship and support to the recovery of democratic freedoms in our country
http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/12/30/en_ing_esp_former-venezuelan-pr_30A4913611
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Who on earth did you think would swallow that silliness, anyway?
Everyone who knows who Carlos Andres Perez was also knows enough to know NO ONE would believe he was a leftist. How wildly stupid.
More:A turning point in the Venezuelan struggle for real democracy occurred in 1989. President Carlos Andres Perez ran on a platform opposing neoliberalism and promised to reform the market during his second term. But following his re-election in 1988, he reversed himself and continued to implement the "Washington Consensus" of neoliberal policies - privatization and cuts to social services. The last straw came when he ended subsidies for oil. The price of gasoline doubled and public transportation prices rose steeply. Protests erupted in the towns surrounding the capitol, Caracas, and quickly spread into the city itself. President Perez responded by revoking multiple constitutional rights to protest and sending in security forces who killed an estimated 3,000 people, most of them in the barrios. This became known as the "Caracazo" ("the Caracas smash"and demonstrated that the president stood with the oligarchs, not with the people.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/14649-the-secret-rise-of-21st-century-democracy
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