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The influence of Hugo Chavez

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As the 10th anniversary of Hugo Chavez becoming president of Venezuela approaches, guest editor Jarvis Cocker would like to consider if key figures of the left still have the same influence as Che Guevara and Fidel Castro once had. Victor Bulmer-Thomas, associate fellow and former director of the think tank Chatham House, and Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London who welcomed Hugo Chavez to City Hall, discuss the influence of the left.

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