San Antonio College Library

Details the rise of the Chavez government and the challenges it has faced in reforming the South American nation's economy and political culture. Provides a penetrating look at a confrontational and transformative head of nation.

Presents the geography, history, economy, and social life and customs of Venezuela, one of the wealthiest nations in Latin America.

"This set of interviews, patiently woven together over the course of several years, offers us an exceptional opportunity to understand the work and thought of one of the most substantial abstract artists of the second half of the twentieth century. In these conversations, Jesus Soto devoted himself to the always difficult task of remembering, in order to reconstruct the essential moments of a long and fruitful artistic career - from his simple childhood...

"The Sanema are an Indigenous people living in Venezuelan Amazonia whose lives increasingly intersect with forces outside their forest homeland, including those of oil extraction, gold mining, and a market economy. This ethnography focuses on predation as understood though Sanema cosmology and history, which incorporate ideas of trickery, mimicry, supplication, and seduction as they relate to predatory others, to investigate consumer goods and labor;...

"Presents 5 case studies of [Venezuelan] factories producing aluminum, textiles, ketchup, cocoa and paper. Each of these factories has been transformed into cooperative partnerships between the worker and the state. Internally, the companies' decision-making structures are characterized by a lack of hierarchy. Teams of managers are elected by the workers, and the work is organized from the bottom-up (rather than the top-down) by management"--Container...