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Venezuela - 9780742554566

Un libro in lingua di Ellner Steve (EDT) Salas Miguel Tinker (EDT) edito da Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2006

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A quick glance at the title of this collection might prompt the reader to expect this work to join in with the many denunciations of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as a dictator in embryo that are heard routinely from his political opponents and government officials in North America. In fact Ellner (U. de Oriente, Venezuela) and Salas (Latin American history, Pomona College, US) have chosen the title to reflect their critique of the longstanding myth of Venezuela as an "exceptional democracy," which is used to form Manichean views of Chavéz as attacking democracy. The ten chapters they present address key themes of earlier Venezuelan political history and the democracy currently taking shape under Chávez, including social conflict and its relation to global geopolitical and economic factors, the operations of US oil companies in Venezuela, Chávismo as the search for an alternative to neoliberalism, the emergence of a new labor movement, the political economy of racism, social movements and civil society, electoral politics, and US-Venezuelan relations. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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