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This prompted Mr Morales - an ally of the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez - to joke recently that he looked fat and not very anti-imperialist.

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Mr Halliday steers an informed path between the myth of pervasive external control, trumpeted in fundamentalist rhetoric and anti-imperialist literature, and the illusion of a ring-fenced Middle Eastern independence.

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The government of Argentina, the third largest country in the region, has also an anti-imperialist discourse that even if it is not as blunt as the one conveyed by the Venezuelan leader, is still there.

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