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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Map of Venezuela
Introduction to the 2011 Edition
Introduction to the 2005 Edition
Part One: Portrait of a President
1. A Baseball Game in Havana, November 1999
2. The Disintegration of the Ancien Régime
3. Provincial Origins in Barinas
4. From Barinas to Caracas: The Irresistible Flight from the Countryside
Part Two: Preparing for a Bolivarian Rebellion
5. The Development of a Military Conspiracy
6. Banished to Elorza: Experiments in Civil–Military Cooperation
7. February 1989 (1): Rebellion in Caracas, the Caracazo
8. February 1989 (2): The Neo-Liberal ‘Package’ That Destroyed the Pérez Government
9. The Debate Between Military and Civilian Revolutionaries
10. The ‘Military Intervention’ of Chávez, February 1992
11. The Failed Coup D’état of Admiral Grüber, November 1992
12. The Patriotic Front of Civilian Revolutionaries
13. Latin America’s Experience of Radical Military Rebellion
Part Three: Recovering the Revolutionary Traditions of the Nineteenth Century
14. The Legacy of Simón Bolívar, the Liberator
15. Robinson Crusoe and the Philosophy of Simón Rodríguez
16. Ezequiel Zamora Invokes ‘Horror a la Oligarquía’
Part Four: Organising the Overthrow of the Ancien Régime by Peaceful Means, 1992–1998
17. Yare Prison and the Search for Political Allies
18. Politics in Guayana and the Rise of La Causa R
19. Chávez’s Election Victory, December 1998
Part Five: Chávez in Power: The Early Years
20. The Constitutional Assembly and the New Constitution
21. When the Heavens Opened
22. Planning for an ‘Endogenous’ Agricultural Future
23. The New Politics of Oil
24. Divisions over the Economic Programme
25. Reforming the Judiciary
26. Developing a ‘Bolivarian’ Foreign Policy
27. Colombia: The Violent Neighbour
28. New Rights for Indigenous Peoples
29. The Changing Character of the Opposition
30. The Old Trade Unions Oppose the Revolution, October 2001
Part Six: The Three Opposition Attempts to Overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution
31. The Revolutionary Decrees of November 2001, the Resignation of Luís Miquilena, and the Mobilisation of the Opposition
32. The First Opposition Threat: The Coup and Counter-Coup of April 2002
33. The Atmosphere after the April Coup
34. ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’: The Media War
35. The Second Opposition Threat: The ‘Economic Coup’ of December 2002
36. Providing Food and Education to the People: The Development of the ‘Missions’, 2003–2004
37. The Third Opposition Threat: The Recall Referendum of August 2004
Epilogue: The Military and Civil Society
A Song for Bolívar
Appendix A Chávez and Castro in Havana
Appendix B The Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Appendix C Sauce of Wonder
Postscript: Venezuela in 2011
Bibliography
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