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

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/165995

2162-2736

Steve Ellner,

International Relations in Latin America

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.