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...Donald Kingsbury Abstract Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution uses officially sponsored commemorations, festivals, and publications to underscore its relation to and dependence on unrest and ungovernability. In this way, it founds a basis and legitimacy not through a historical link to a people...

... to neoliberal globalization in Latin America over the past two decades, as well as how charismatic leaders of the left have captured state power. Through an analysis of the Zapatista and Appista Movements in Mexico, the Piqueteros and workers’ movements in Argentina, the Chavistas in Venezuela, and the Aymara...

... focuses on Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia, the three countries that have sometimes been described as the Latin American “axis of evil.” New Political Science, Volume 31, Number 3, September 2009 The Bush Adm.inistration Record in Latin Am.erica: Sins of Om.ission and Com.m.ission* Walt Vanderbush Miami...

.... Nicola Short from York University, discussant for the CPSA panel, made many useful and insightful comments, some of which I have incorporated into this article. The ideas were first developed in discussions inside the Toronto-based Coalicion Venezuela Estamos Contigo (Coalition "Venezuela We Are With You...

...-American Dialogue, a DC-based policy thinktank, who asserted, "Most people in Latin America recognize that his record has been pretty bad as president of Venezuela. I don't think this is the new hope, or the new way." The article concluded, "US officials have expressed concern that Chavez could...

... of the most important legacies of Chavez may be that the new form of citizenship he promotes shapes how citizenship is understood within Venezuela and other countries in the decades to come. While there are many aspects of this citizenship, this article will highlight three: (1) the importance of active...

... New Political Science, Volume 25, Number 2, June 2003 1/11 Carfax Publishing Taylor & Francis Group Reviews Damarys Canache, Venezuela: Public Opinion and Protest in a Fragile Democracy, Coral Gables FL: North-South Center Press, 2002, ii + 186 pp. During the second half of the twentieth...

... revealing how out of touch the left intelligentsia can be, such a strident statement also ignores the sacrifices of thousands of activists killed in insurgencies around the world in places like Gwangju, Venezuela, Thailand, Tunisia and Burkina Faso - to name only a few of the many places where autonomous...

... are expressed and contested in the figure of the beauty queen, a particularly salient person and site for expressing nationalist claims during the recent souring of relations between Venezuela and Colombia as the two nations pursued distinct political projects. This study of aesthetic nationalism in Colombia...

... with the election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 1998; and, more recently in the United States (US) with the ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidency. What links these political phenomena is a rejection of actually existing liberal democracy and a search for a new, more popularly responsive democracy that can...

... precipitated a socialist revolution. In a late chapter entitled "The Metabolism of Twenty-first Century Socialism/" the authors acknowledge that Venezuela has been able to begin the transition to an ecological socialism because their financial base has been that of exploitative resource extraction...

... highlights Venezuela's move toward a participatory health system, beginning with its 1999 Constitution, which establishes a right to free health care for all citizens. Venezuelan doctors, he explains, are "trained not just in medicine but in health more generally," and are therefore also tasked with engaging...

... workplace democracy are (i) financial help, either through preferable loan treatment from some kind of arms-length public or cooperative bank, or through tax breaks; for example, the use of tax breaks allowed co-ops in Venezuela to grow from eight hundred in 1998 to a reported number of over one hundred...

... on forms of citizenship and participation under Venezuela president Hugo Chavez. Claire Duncanson and Catherine Eschle look at the connections between gender and the discourses of the nuclear weapons state through an analysis of a 2006 British White Paper on the Trident nuclear weapons program. Finally...

... Any Given We: Theory, Agency, and Critique in World Politics. Ritchie Savage is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research. He is currently in the final stages of writing his dissertation, "A Comparative Analysis of Populist Discourse in Venezuela...

... under the rubric of "democracy promotion" are: 1. Those Washington wishes to destabilize, such as, in recent years, Venezuela Haiti, and Cuba, and earlier Nicaragua. The groups and individuals that participated in the destabilization of the government of Jean Bertrand Aristide and that are now in power...

... of its silence on climate debt. Ajl's people's GND will conspicuously feature climate debt reparations because the periphery's most advanced socialist-led states (e.g., Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia) are united in their demand for climate debt reparations from rich countries. The book endorses...

... Studies, 2000); Kenneth Roberts, "Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Latin America. The Peruvian Case," World Politics 48:1 (1995), pp. 82-116; Kenneth Roberts, "Social Polarization and the Populist Resurgence in Venezuela," in Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger (eds), Venezuelan Politics...

... in Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and elsewhere. The "Third World" (an increasingly meaningless term) is ever more aware ofits own economic differentiation, for example, between OPECS and NOPECS (non-oil exporting countries), or between newly industrialized states and largely...

... countries such as North Korea and Venezuela (p. 22). What is more, the Trump White House actually lifted the initial list of countries "directly from the Obama-era Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention ACt2 In attacking the ban for violating the superficially non-discriminatory...