We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Map of Venezuela xii Introduction. What People? Whose History? 1 One. A Guerrilla History 22 Two. Reconnecting with the Masses 45 Three. Birth of the ‘‘Tupamaros’’ 67 First Interlude. The Caracazo History Splits in Two 88 Four. Sergio’s Blood Student Struggles from the University to the Streets 105 126 Five. Manuelita’s Boots Women between Two Movements 146 Six. José Leonardo’s Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje 166 Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth 180 Seven. Venezuelan Workers Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class? 200 Eight. Oligarchs Tremble! Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State 218 Nine. A New Proletariat? Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets 234 Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State 257 Notes 307 Index ...