Books
Keep updated with the latest academic and popular writings on Venezuela's democracy.
Contemporary Venezuela
Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chavez Phenomenon
By Steve Ellner (Lynne Rienner, 2008)
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government
By Gregory Wilpert (Verso, 2007)
Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an 'Exceptional Democracy'
By Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas, eds. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)
Cowboy in Caracas: A North American's Memoir of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution
By Charles Hardy (Curbstone, 2007)
The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions and 100 Answers
By Chesa Boudin, Gabriel Gonzales and Wilmer Rumbos (Thunder's Mouth, 2006)
International Relations
Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.
By Nikolas Kozoloff, (Palgrave, 2006)
The Chavez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela
By Eva Golinger (Olive Branch Press, 2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
By Tariq Ali (Verso, 2006)
Hugo Chavez
Hugo!: The Hugo Chavez Story From Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
By Bart Jones (Steerforth, 2007)
Hugo Chavez: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
By Richard Gott (Verso, 2005)
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker
By Hugo Chavez and Marta Harnecker (Monthly Review Press, 2005)
The Battle of Venezuela
By Michael Caughan (Seven Stories, 2005)
Chavez: Venezuela and the New Latin America
By Hugo Chavez and Aleida Guevara (Ocean Press, 2004)
Race, Class, & Gender
The Venezuela Reader: The Building of a People's Democracy
Edited by Olivia Burlingame Goumbri (EPICA, 2005)
Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict
By Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger (Lynne Rienner, 2003)
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare
By Charles Briggs (University of California Press, 2004)
Further Reading
The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela
By Jennifer McCoy and David Meyers (Johns Hopkins, 2006)
Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela
By Darlene Rivas (University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
The United States and Venezuela: Rethinking a Relationship
By Janet Kelly and Carlos Romero (Routledge, 2001)
The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro States
By Terry Lynn Karl (University of California Press, 1997)
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