Political books from Venezuela
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If you are into political here are some political books from Venezuela for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Alejandro Velasco EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
"In the mid-1950s, in an effort to modernize Venezuela, the military government razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). Over the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, a... continue
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The Bolivarian Revolution by Simon Bolivar EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez for his own political program–which he has called ‘the Bolívarian Revolution’–these galvanizing words remain as relevant for current political and social struggles as they were in Bolivar’s own day.