This colorful expression well describes the racial composition of Venezuelan society, in which European, African, and Indian peoples have intermingled to produce a population in which almost everyone is of mixed blood. It also expresses a popular belief th..
However, in a world abundantly supplied with oil, the United States could and did ignore Venezuelan suggestions that OPEC and the consuming nations work together to control production and to increase prices. Then, in late 1973, OPEC sent shudders throughou..
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..
In spite of opposition attempts to oust President Hugo Chávez and his political machinery from power, this ''socialism of the twenty-first century'' hegemonic project has succeeded in creating an institutional structure designed to..
Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela’s economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19 percent and oil GDP by an astonishing 65 percent. What accounts for this drastic turnabout? The editors of Venezuela Before Chá..
Welcomed in 1999 by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential savior, and greeted by Washington with considerable alarm, this former golpista-turned-democrat took up the aims and ambitions of Venezuela’s liberator, simón ..
En ciertas Áreas Bajo Régimen de Administración Especial del Municipio Caripe, Edo. Monagas, Venezuela, han venido ocurriendo hechos de degradación ambiental que se manifiestan en la deforestación e invasión agrícola y urbana, lo cual está trayendo..
