Author: Eva Golinger
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Exposes the CIA's attempts to bring down Latin America's most popular leader
The Chavez Code
Author: Eva Golinger
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Exposes the CIA's attempts to bring down Latin America's most popular leader
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Exposes the CIA's attempts to bring down Latin America's most popular leader
Bush Versus Chávez
Author: Eva Golinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"In this revealing new study, Eva Golinger employs declassified documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and a variety of international sources to uncover an ongoing campaign to contain and cripple the democratically elected government of Latin America's leading oil power. [This book] details how millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to fund groups - such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Office for Transition - with the express purpose of supporting counter-revolutionary groups in Venezuela. It explores, as well, a build-up of U.S. military troops, operations, and exercises in the Caribbean that threatens the Venezuelan people and government. [This book] exposes Washington's efforts to subvert a socialist revolution for the twenty-first century."--Cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"In this revealing new study, Eva Golinger employs declassified documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and a variety of international sources to uncover an ongoing campaign to contain and cripple the democratically elected government of Latin America's leading oil power. [This book] details how millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to fund groups - such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Office for Transition - with the express purpose of supporting counter-revolutionary groups in Venezuela. It explores, as well, a build-up of U.S. military troops, operations, and exercises in the Caribbean that threatens the Venezuelan people and government. [This book] exposes Washington's efforts to subvert a socialist revolution for the twenty-first century."--Cover.
The Chavez Code
Author: Eva Golinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567513486
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567513486
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Dragon in the Tropics
Author: Javier Corrales
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815705026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime—an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America. Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Chávez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Chávez ran for president. It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions—the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments—but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Chávez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Chávez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815705026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime—an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America. Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Chávez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Chávez ran for president. It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions—the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments—but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Chávez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Chávez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.
Hugo Chávez
Author: Nikolas Kozloff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 1403984093
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A timely look at Venezuela's controversial president Hugo Chavez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 1403984093
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A timely look at Venezuela's controversial president Hugo Chavez
Harvesting Hope
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014377
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The true story of a shy boy who grew up to be one of America's greatest civilrights leaders is told in this picture book biography. Full color.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014377
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The true story of a shy boy who grew up to be one of America's greatest civilrights leaders is told in this picture book biography. Full color.
Cesar Chavez
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439108897
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
¡Viva la causa! ¡Viva César Chávez! Up and down the San Joaquin Valley of California, and across the country, people chanted these words. Cesar Chavez, a migrant worker himself, was helping Mexican Americans work together for better wages, for better working conditions, for better lives. No one thought they could win against the rich and powerful growers. But Cesar was out to prove them wrong -- and that he did.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439108897
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
¡Viva la causa! ¡Viva César Chávez! Up and down the San Joaquin Valley of California, and across the country, people chanted these words. Cesar Chavez, a migrant worker himself, was helping Mexican Americans work together for better wages, for better working conditions, for better lives. No one thought they could win against the rich and powerful growers. But Cesar was out to prove them wrong -- and that he did.
Cesar Chavez: Latino American Civil Rights Activist
Author: Grace Hansen
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680802348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
This title introducing Cesar Chavez will make readers want to go out and make a change. The title starts off with Cesar's humble beginnings in Arizona with this poor family and takes you with him on his path to being one of the greatest advocates for Latino and farmworker rights. Complete with a timeline and wonderful historical photographs.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680802348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
This title introducing Cesar Chavez will make readers want to go out and make a change. The title starts off with Cesar's humble beginnings in Arizona with this poor family and takes you with him on his path to being one of the greatest advocates for Latino and farmworker rights. Complete with a timeline and wonderful historical photographs.
Cesar Chavez
Author: Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 9781575056524
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
An illustrated biography of Cesar Chavez, who worked to improve conditions for farm workers by helping to establish a union for them and by leading strikes to raise their pay and better their working conditions.
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 9781575056524
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
An illustrated biography of Cesar Chavez, who worked to improve conditions for farm workers by helping to establish a union for them and by leading strikes to raise their pay and better their working conditions.
The Revolution in Venezuela
Author: Thomas Ponniah
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
ISBN: 9780674061385
Category : Revolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Is Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chávez truly revolutionary? Some see the president as a shining knight of socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. But the Chávez government does not fall easily into a seamless fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these distinguished essays make clear.
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
ISBN: 9780674061385
Category : Revolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Is Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chávez truly revolutionary? Some see the president as a shining knight of socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. But the Chávez government does not fall easily into a seamless fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these distinguished essays make clear.