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Author Martinez, Carlos (Journalist)

Title Venezuela speaks! : voices from the grassroots / Carlos Martinez, Michael Fox and JoJo Farrell.

Publication Info. Oakland, Calif. : PM ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 343 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary A collection of interviews with activists and other contributors, this compelling oral history details Venezuela?s bloodless uprising and reorganization. For the last decade, Venezuela?s?Bolivarian Revolution? has captured international attention. Poverty, inequality, and unemployment have all dropped, while health, education, and living standards have seen a commensurate rise?and this chronicle is the real, bottom-up account. The stories shed light on the complex facets within the revolution, detailing the change in such realities as community media to land reform, cooperatives to communal councils, and the labor movement to the Afro-Venezuelan network. Offering a different perspective than that of the international mainstream media, which has focused predominantly on Venezuela?s controversial president, Hugo Chavez, these examples of democracy in action illustrate the vast cultural, economic, and racial differences within the country?all of which have impacted the current South American state.
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Subject Chávez Frías, Hugo.
Chávez Frías, Hugo.
Revolutionaries -- Venezuela -- Interviews.
Revolutionaries.
Venezuela.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Political activists -- Venezuela -- Interviews.
Political activists.
Political participation -- Venezuela.
Political participation.
Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999-
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1999-
Subject Venezuela -- History -- 1999-
History.
Chronological Term Since 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Interviews.
Added Author Fox, Michael (Journalist)
Farrell, Jojo.
Other Form: Print version: Martínez, Carlos. Venezuela speaks! Oakland, Calif. : PM ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], 2009 9781604861082 (OCoLC)319501251
ISBN 9781604862928 (electronic book)
1604862920 (electronic book)
9781604862942 (electronic book)
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