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Informationen zum Autor Steve Ellner is professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. Miguel Tinker Salas is Arango Professor of Latin American History and Chicano/a studies at Pomona College. Klappentext This authoritative book offers a comprehensive assessment of contemporary Venezuela. Analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of Hugo Chávez, leading scholars move beyond his flamboyant style to focus on the concerns of popular social and political movements. The book challenges the misleading notions that for several decades glorified Venezuelan "exceptionalism" and minimized the role of important actors. After setting the historical and socio-economic contexts, the contributors explore racial issues, social and labor movements, electoral politics, economic and oil policy, and United States support for the Venezuelan opposition. Underscoring the complexity of Chávez and his popularity, the book highlights the need to avoid simplistic assessments of the past and present and offers a clear-eyed understanding of Venezuelan reality today. Zusammenfassung Before 1989! US scholars emphasized Venezuela's status as an exceptional Latin American nation. Most importantly! it served as an ideal model for US policy in Latin America. All this changed in the mass unrest during the week of February 27! 1989. This book explores the changing attitudes about Venezuela and it's role in the rest of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: New Perspectives and the Chávez PhenomenonPart I: Theoretical, Historical, and International BackgroundChapter 1: The Venezuelan Exceptionalism Thesis: Separating Myth from RealityChapter 2: Venezuelan Social Conflict in a Global ContextPart II: Oil and Economic PolicyChapter 3: U.S. Oil Companies in Venezuela: The Forging of an Enduring AllianceChapter 4: Chávez and the Search for an Alternative to NeoliberalismPart III: Labor and RaceChapter 5: Trade Autonomy and the Emergence of a New Labor Movement in Venezuela Chapter 6: Ethnicity and Revolution: The Political Economy of Racism in VenezuelaPart IV: Social MovementsChapter 7: Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution: Who Are the Chavistas? Chapter 8: Social Movements in a Polarized Setting: Myths of Venezuelan Civil SocietyPart V: Electoral Politics, Social Change, and U.S. ReactionChapter 9: When "No" Means "Yes to Revolution": Electoral Politics in Bolivarian VenezuelaChapter 10: Confronting Hugo Chávez: United States "Democracy Promotion" in Latin America...
