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Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chavez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anti-capitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chavez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country's Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chavez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during the Chavez era, Ciccariello-Maher provides a broader, more nuanced account of Chavez's rise to power and the years of activism that preceded it. Based on interviews with grassroots organizers, former guerrillas, members of neighbourhood 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 Chavez 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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government

• Full title: We Created Chavez
• Author: George Ciccariello Maher
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780822354529
• ISBN: 0822354527
• ID: 01287414
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 514 g
• Dimensions: 239 × 160 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2013

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