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We created Chávez
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- Book Synopsis
- Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Ch¦vez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Ch¦vez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country's Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Ch¦vez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during the Ch¦vez era, Ciccariello-Maher provides a broader, more nuanced account of Ch¦vez's rise to power and the years of activism that preceded it.Based on interviews with grassroots organizers, former guerrillas, members of neighborhood militias, and government officials, Ciccariello-Maher presents a new history of Venezuelan political activism, one told from below. Led by leftist guerrillas, women, Afro-Venezuelans, indigenous people, and students, the social movements he discusses have been struggling against corruption and repression since 1958. Ciccariello-Maher pays particular attention to the dynamic interplay between the Ch¦vez government, revolutionary social movements, and the Venezuelan people, recasting the Bolivarian Revolution as a long-term and multifaceted process of political transformation.
- About The Author
- George Ciccariello-Maher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drexel University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780822354529
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, (17 April 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 499 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 156 x 23 mm
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