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 ...
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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.
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