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020 $a9781884365775
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040 $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$dYDXCP$dVVN$dKFP$dBWX
050 $aJL3881$b.U93 2010
100 1 $aUzcátegui, Rafael,$d1973-
245 10 $aVenezuela :$brevolution as spectacle /$cRafael Uzcátegui ; translated by Chaz Bufe.
260 $aTucson, Arizona :$bSee Sharp Prress,$cc2010.
300 $a232 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aVenezuela - Revolution as Spectacle analyses the Chávez regime from an antiauthoritarian Venezuelan perspective. It debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the Chávez government is dictatorial, as well as, claims made by Venezuelan and US leftists that the Chávez government is revolutionary. Instead the book argues that the Chávez regime is one of a long line of Latin American populist regimes that revolutionary - "rhetoric aside" - ultimately have been subservient to the United States as well as to multinational corporations. The book concludes by explaining how Venezuela's autonomous social, labour, and environmental movements have been systematically disempowered by the Chávez regime, but that despite this they remain the basis of a truly democratic, revolutionary alternative."--Cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
505 0 $aLeftist reaction to the Bolivarian revolution -- Daily life in revolutionary Venezuela -- The devil's excrement -- Populism and militarism -- Social movements -- The Bolivarian political process -- The challenge of the future.
651 0 $aVenezuela$xHistory$y1999-
651 0 $aVenezuela$xPolitics and government$y1974-1999.
651 0 $aVenezuela$xPolitics and government$y1999-
700 1 $aBufe, Charles.$4trl
899 $a415_565493
988 $a20110503
906 $0OCLC