Carlos Martínez, ‎Michael Fox, ‎JoJo Farrell, Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots (2010)

Carlos Martínez, ‎Michael Fox, ‎JoJo Farrell, Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots (2010) .PDF Hans Bennett: Voices of Participatory Democracy in Venezuela: A Review of Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots (2010) A collection of interviews with activists and other contributors, this compelling oral history details Venezuela’s uprising and reorganization. For the last decade, Venezuela’s triumphant and ongoing Bolivarian Revolution has captured international attention. Poverty, inequality, and unemployment have all substantially dropped, while health, education, and living standards have seen a commensurate rise—and this chronicle is the real, bottom-up account. The stories shed light on the complex facets within the revolution, detailing the change in such realities as community media to land reform, cooperatives to communal councils, and the labor movement to the Afro-Venezuelan network. Offering a different perspective than that of the international mainstream media, which has focused predominantly on Hugo Chávez, these examples of democracy in action illustrate the vast cultural, economic, and racial differences within the country—all of which have impacted the current South American state. -- source link

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