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MEDEIROS ARCE, Anatólio. Historia e ideología bajo Hugo Chávez. Diálogos rev. electr. hist [online]. 2012, vol.13, n.2, pp.141-159. ISSN 1409-469X.

This article aims to demonstrate that the internal political context of Venezuela is straight tensioned by ideologies which the end of XXth century was considered  backward and it will disappear. However, in specific case of this country, its metabolism has around it ideological discussions, pointing out the socialism and exalting the past persons like Simon Bolivar. In this sense, the history has an important function into state apparatus, mainly when emphasizing present’s elements,  involving social actors from the past whom are living like a symbolical elements or it has their descendents in political scenario, like Chavez and his great-grandfather. The Venezuelan’s government diffuses a specific interpretation about the history of occidental world, America and mainly of Venezuela, become it one of the most efficient tools to diffuse and sustain the Hugo Chavez regime. In this sense, the thesis which was known like End of World and Ideologies Death diffused by Francis Fukuyama in the moment of fall of Soviet Union did not see to more social realities. Thus, the Venezuelan reality achieved an exceptional level because in 1960s and 1970s the country had shown one of the best conditions to be a model - or the “best student” - of subject knew as ‘democracy’, being pointed like one of the exception among its antidemocratic neighborhood. Finally, this article concluded the Venezuelan economic factors do not have anything relation with ideologies “death”, proofing to be the otherwise: ideologies linked to socialist ideals are getting more and more efficient in electoral moments that the neoliberal thought were in a deep legitimating crises in Latin America.

Palabras clave : End of History; Present Time History; Hugo Chavez; Ideologies Death; Venezuela.

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