We Created Chï¿½vez A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

Name: We Created Chï¿½vez A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution
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ISBN: 9780822354529

ISBN-10: 0822354527

ISBN-13: 9780822354529

Edition: 2013

Authors: Geo Maher

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Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during the Chávez era, Ciccariello-Maher provides a broader, more nuanced account of Chávez’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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Map of Venezuela


Introduction. What People? Whose History?



A Guerrilla History



Reconnecting with the Masses



Birth of the "Tupamaros"


First Interlude. The Caracazo


History Splits in Two



Sergio's Blood


Student Struggles from the University to the Streets



Manuelita's Boots


Women between Two Movements



Josï¿½ Leonardo's Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje


Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth



Venezuelan Workers


Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class?



Oligarchs Tremble!


Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State



A New Proletariat?


Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets


Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State


Notes


Index