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Organized Labor's Political Influence and Party Ties in Venezuela: Acción Democrática and its Labor Leadership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Steve Ellner
Steve Ellner*
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Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz (Venezuela)
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The nomination of Carlos Andrés Peréz as the presidential candidate of Venezuela's Democratic Action party (Acción Democrática or AD) and his triumph at the polls in December 1988 are just the latest examples of the AD Labor Bureau's success in being on the winning side in electoral contests. AD-Labor's well-demonstrated political clout underscores the importance of the relations between the Labor Bureau and the AD organization. An examination of the interaction between the two is especially in order because AD has emerged as a leading Latin American member of the Socialist International (SI) with its social democratic doctrine which assigns the working class a major role in the party and in the gradual achievement of democratic socialism.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , Winter 1989 , pp. 91 - 130
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Copyright © University of Miami 1989

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