Hugo chávez - heroism and tyrany in discourses on legitimation in political power in latin America
International Journal of Development Research
Hugo chávez - heroism and tyrany in discourses on legitimation in political power in latin America
Received 27th September, 2018; Received in revised form 16th October, 2018; Accepted 29th November, 2018; Published online 31st December, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Ricardo Pereira Vieira and Maria da Conceição Fonseca-Silva. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This work has been based on research results obtained by Vieira (2009)1 and Vieira (2013)2 and, through a methodology based on index paradigm proposed by Ginzburg (1986) and in postulates of Foucault's philosophy (1969), seeks to investigate the existence of a legal-political statement in relation to Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, according to which, in Latin America in the last decades, to legitimize himself in exercise of power, a politician has to be built in the place of a hero, but in him does not want to perpetuate indefinitely as a tyrant. Thus, in addition to the aforementioned theoretical-methodological reference, it will resort to classics of political and philosophical thought, as well as historical analysis, to demonstrate its existence and functioning.
