Resources

  • Selected articles from Venezuela Analysis http://www.venezuelanalysis.com
  • Selected articles from ZNet. https://zcomm.org/znet/
  • Chavez, Hugo and Marta Harnecker. Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005.
  • Freire, Paulo. Trans. By Myra Ramos. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. NY: Continuum Press, 2000.
  • Gott, Richard. Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution. NY: Verso, 2005.
  • Hellinger, Daniel. Venezuela: A Tarnished Democracy. Westview, 1992 (On pdf files on BB).
  • Márquez, Patricia. The Street is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
  • Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Articles & Excerpts on BlackBoard CourseInfo

  • Boue, Juan Carlos. Venezuela: The Political Economy of Oil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Castenada, Nora. Creating A Caring Economy. Philadelphia: Global Women’s Strike. 2005.
  • Collins, Sheila D. “Breaking the Mold: Venezuela ‘s Defiance of the Neoliberal Agenda,” New Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 3 (September 2005): 367-395.
  • Coronel, Gustavo. The Nationalization of the Venezuelan Oil Industry. Lexington, Massachusetts:Lexington Books, 1983.
  • DeLong, Seth. ” Venezuela ‘s Agrarian land Reform: More like Lincoln than Lenin.”
  • Dinges, John. “Soul Search.” Columbia Journalism Review. Issue 4: July/August 2005.
  • Farmer, Paul. Ch. 5 on Liberation Theology from Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
  • Feder, Ernest. The Rape of the Peasantry: Latin America ‘s Landholding System. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1971.
  • Fuentes, Federico. ” Venezuela: Land Reform Battle Deepens.” (originally published in: Green Left Weekly, New South Wales, Australia, October 12, 2005.)
  • Fox, Michael. ” Venezuela ‘s Cooperatives Take First Steps Towards National Cooperative Movement, “http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print.php?artno=1739.
  • Guevara, Aleida. Chávez: Venezuela and the New Latin America. NY: Ocean Press, 2005. Excerpts: 1-6; 33-59.
  • Kirby, John. ” Venezuela ‘s Land Reform: Progress and Change,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 2 (May 1973), pp. 205-220.
  • Lendman, Stephen. “New Estimate of Venezuela’s Total oil Reserves Makes It the Grandest of Grand Prizes for US,” https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=opedne_stephen__060523_new_estimate_of_vene.htm
  • McBeth, B. S. Juan Vicente Gomez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908 – 1935. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  • Piniero Harnecker, Camila. “The New Cooperative movement in Venezuela ‘s Bolivarian Process,” http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print.php?artno=1631.
  • Randall, Laura. The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil. New York: Praeger, 1987.

Partial List of Other Texts & Materials (Many of these are on BB)

  • The Carter Center. The Carter Center and the Peacebuilding Process in Venezuela, June 2002 February 2005.
  • The Carter Center. Observing the Venezuela n Presidential Recall Referendum: Comprehensive Report, February 2005.
  • Coronil, Fernando. The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
  • Chávez, Hugo Friás. The Fascist Coup Against Venezuela, Speeches and Addresses December 2002 January 2003, 2nd ed. augmented. Havana: Ediciones Plaza, 2003.
  • Ellner, Steve and Daniel Hellinger (eds.). Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict. Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2004.
  • Gindin, Jonah. “Chavistas in the Halls of Power, Chavistas on the Street,” NACLA Report on the Americas, 38, No. 5 ( March 5, 2005 ).
  • Golinger, Eva. The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela ( Havana: Editorial José Martí, 2005.
  • Gould, Carol. Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Goumbri, Olivia Burlingame (ed.). The Venezuela Reader: The Building of a People’s Democracy. Washington, DC: EPICA, 2005.
  • “Latin America is Far From Rejecting Democracy,” Financial Times, August 2, 2004.
  • Latin American Perspectives, Issue 141, Vol. 32, No. 2, March 2005.
  • Latin American Perspectives, Issue 127, Vol. 29, No. 6, November 2002.
  • Lijphart, Arend. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty- Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
  • Slim, Hugo and Paul Thompson. Listening for a Change.
  • United Nations Development Programme, Democracy in Latin America: Towards a Citizens’ Democracy, available at: http://democracia.undp.org/Informe/Default.asp?Menu=15&Idioma=1
  • Wilpert, Wilpert. ” Venezuela ‘s ‘Other Path,'” Dissent, Spring 2005, pp. 21-24.

Films

  • Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America. A Documentary by Aleida Guevara and Ocean Film. 2004.
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Filmed & Directed by Kim Bartley & Donnacha O Briain. Produced in association with the Irish Film Board.
  • Talking About Power: Global Women’s Strike. Director Nina Lopez. 2005.