Populism in Venezuelaanalyses the emergence, formation, reproduction and resistance to a left-wing populist project in a major world oil producer.For readers who seek to understand the historical, economical and sociological contexts that gave rise to a 38 year-old mestizo-mulato Lieutenant Colonel who stormed the presidential palace in a bloody coup d''état in 1992, subsequently returned to the same palace in 1998, but this time, as a democratically elected President, and has been in power s..
