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We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution

We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution

George Ciccariello-Maher

2013·518 pages

This history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.

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Acknowledgments Map of Venezuela Introduction. What People? Whose History?One. A Guerrilla History Two. Reconnecting with the Masses Three. Birth of the “Tupamaros”First Interlude. The Caracazo History Splits in Two Four. Sergio's Blood Student Struggles from the University to the Streets Five. Manuelita's Boots Women between Two Movements Six. José Leonardo's Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth Seven. Venezuelan Workers Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class?Eight. Oligarchs Tremble!Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State Nine. A New Proletariat?Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State Notes Index

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