BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following bibliography is just a sample of the rich literature available on Venezuela. It is aimed at providing basic and contemporary references to students, researchers and policy makers interested in learning more about this important South American country. Most of the sources cited below may be available at the Lauinger Library at Georgetown University, the Library of Congress or your local library.

I. Politics

II. Foreign Policy


III. Political Economy & Economics

IV. Social & Cultural Issues

V. History

 

I. Politics

Arias Cárdenas, Francisco J. La Revolución Bolivariana: de la Guerrilla al Militarism: Revelaciones del Comandante Arias Cárdenas. Mérida, Venezuela: A. Garrido, 2000.

Arias Cárdenas, Francisco J. Modernización de las Gobernaciones en Venezuela. Caracas: CDB Publicaciones, 2000.


Blanco, Carlos. Revolución y Desilusión: la Venezuela de Hugo Chávez. Madrid: Catarata, 2002.


Bohórquez-Morán, Carmen L. Democracia, Medios, y Poder: el Caso de Venezuela. Casa de las Americas, Apr-Jun 2003.


Buxton, Julia. The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela. Burlington: Ashgate, 2001.


Brewer-Carías, Allan Randolph. La Crisis de la Democracia Venezolana: la Carta Democrática Interamericana y los Sucesos de Abril de 2002. Caracas: Los Libros de El Nacional, 2002.


Caballero, Manuel. Revolución, Reacción y Falsificación. Caracas: Alfadil Ediciones, 2002.


Canache, Damarys. Venezuela: Public Opinion and Protest in a Fragile Democracy. Coral Gables, Fla: North-South Center Press at the University of Miami, 2002.


Canache, Damarys and Michael Kulishek. Reinventing Legitimacy: Democracy and Political Change in Venezuela. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.


Carmona, Pedro. Mi Testimonio Ante la Historia. Venezuela: Editorial Actum, 2004.


Chávez Frías, Hugo. Hugo Chávez Frías: un Hombre, Un Pueblo. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2002.


García, Jesús y Nirva Rosa Camacho. Comunidades Afrodescendientes en Venezuela y América Latina. Caracas: Parlamento Andino, 2002.


Codetta, Carolina. Mujer y Participación Política en Venezuela. Caracas: Edición X Demanda, 2001.


Coppedge, Michael. Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Patryarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.


Coroníl, Fernando. The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.


Crisp, Brian. Democratic Institutional Design: The Powers and Incentives of Venezuelan Politics and Interest Groups. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.


Crisp, Brian. El Control Institucional de la Participación en la Democracia Venezolana. Caracas: Editorial Jurídica Venezolana, 1997.


Diaz, Arlene. Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.


Díaz Rangel, Eleazar y Marinellys Tremamunno, eds. Chávez y los Medios de Comunicación Social. Caracas: Alfadil Ediciones, 2002.


Ellner, Steve and Daniel Hellinger, eds. Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2003.


Frances, Antonio and Carlos E. Machado-Allison. Venezuela: la Crisis de Abril. Caracas: Ediciones IESA, 2002.


Friedman, Elisabeth J. Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Latin America, 1936-1996. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.


Garcia Ponce, Guillermo. El Golpe del 11 de Abril. Caracas: Instituto Municipal de Publicaciones de la Alcaldía de Caracas, 2002.


Garrido, Alberto. Notas Sobre la Revolución Bolivariana. Caracas: Ediciones del Autor, 2003.


Golinger, Eva. El Código Chávez: Descifrando la Intervención de los EE. UU. En Venezuela. Caracas: Fondo Editorial Question, 2005.


Gutiérrez, Iván. La Izquierda Venezolana del Futuro: Izquierdistas, Vuelvan Caras! Caracas: Centro de Promoción y Análisis de Políticas Publicas, 2000.


Hellinger, Daniel. Venezuela: Tarnished Democracy. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.


Hernández, Carlos Raúl. Agonía de la Democracia: Adonde Va Venezuela con la Revolución Bolivariana. Caracas: Distribuidora Panactua, 2001.


Hillman, Richard S. Democracy for the Priveleged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1994.


Hillman, Richard S., ed. Understanding Contemporary Latin America. Boulder: Rienner Publishers, 2005.


Hillman, Richard S., John A Peeler, and Elsa Cardozo da Silva, eds. Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002.


Karl, Terry Lynn. The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.


McCaughn, Michael. The Battle of Venezuela. London: Latin American Bureau, 2004.


McCoy, Jennifer L. and David J. Meyers. The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.


Medina, Medo filo y Margarita López Maya. Venezuela, Confrontación Social y Polarizacion Política. Bogota: Ediciones Aurora, 2003.


Méndez, Ana Irene. Democracia y Discurso Político: Caldera, Pérez, y Chávez. Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, 2004.


Montero, Maritza, ed. Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela. Binghamton, NY: Haworth, 2004.


Murillo, Maria Victoria. Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions and Market Reforms in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.


Pastor, Roberto Viciano y Luis Salamanca, eds. El Sistema Político de la Constitución Bolivariana de Venezuela. Caracas: Vadell Hermanos, 2004.


Quintero Montiel, Inés Mercedes. La Criolla Principal: Maria Antonia Bolívar, Hermana del Libertador. Caracas: Fundación Bigott, 2003.


Renfigo, Ángel Miguel. Antichavistas y Chavistas: Una Salida del Laberinto. Caracas: Editorial Kinesis, 2003.


Rotker, Susana and Katherine Goldman, eds. Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.


Trinkunas, Harold A. Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: a Comparative Perspective. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.


Valero, Jorge. La Diplomacia Internacional y el Golpe de 1945. Caracas: Monte Avila Editores Latinoamericana, 2001.


Vargas, J.M. A Paso del Abismo. Caracas: Fondo Cultural Atenea, 2003.


Wilpert, Gregory, ed. Coup Against Chávez in Venezuela: The Best International Reports of What Really Happened in April 2002. Caracas: Fundación por un Mundo Multipolar, 2003.

 

II. Foreign Policy

Battaglini, Oscar. La Postguerra Fría y la Política de Seguridad y Defensa del Estado Venezolano. Caracas: Ediciones FACES/UCV, 2002.


Ewell, Judith. Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe's Hemisphere to Petroleum's Empire. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1996.


Kelly de Escobar, Janet and Carlos A. Romero. The United States and Venezuela: Rethinking a Relationship. New York: Routledge, 2002.


Marcano Salazar, Luís Manuel. Democracia y Política Exterior De Betancourt (1959-1964) a Caldera (1969-1974): Impacto del Sistema Político Interno en la Formación de la Política Exterior de Venezuela (1959-1964 y 1969-1974). Caracas: Nuevas Letras, 2001.

Romero, Maria Teresa. Política Exterior Venezuela: El Proyecto Democrático, 1959-1999. Caracas: Los Libros El Nacional, 2002.


Valero, Jorge. La Diplomacia Internacional y el Golpe de 1945. Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, 2001.

 

III. Economics & Political Economy

Bachelet, Pablo. Gustavo Cisneros: Pioneer. Barcelona: Planeta, 2004.


Falola, Tovin. The Politics of the Global Oil Industry: an Introduction. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005.


Patrinos, Harry Anthony. Economic Volatility and Returns to Education in Venezuela. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Education Sector Unit, 2002.


Randall, Laura. The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil. New York: Praeger, 1987.


Salazar-Carrillo, Jorge. Oil and Development in Venezuela During the 20th Century. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004.


Weyland, Kurt Gerhard. The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.


Yarrington, Doug. A Coffee Frontier: Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830-1936. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

 

IV. Social & Cultural Issues

Briggs, Charles. Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.


Conway, Christopher B. The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2003.


Dinneen, Mark. Culture and Customs of Venezuela. Westport, Conn,: Greenwood Press, 2001.


Duarte, Carlos F. La Vida Cotidiana en Venezuela Durante el Periodo Hispánico. Caracas: Fundación Cisneros, 2001.


Guss, David. The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism as Cultural Performance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.


Marquez, Patricia. The Street is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.


Wright, Winthrop. Café con Leche: Race, Class and National Image in Venezuela. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.

V. History

Ewell, Judith. Venezuela: A Century of Change. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.


McBeth, Brian Stuart. Gunboats, Corruption, and Claims: Foreign Intervention in Venezuela, 1899-1908. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.


Quintero Montiel, Inés Mercedes. La Criolla Principal: Maria Antonia Bolivar, Hermana del Libertador. Caracas: Fundación Bigott, 2003.


Rivas, Darlene. Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2002.


Tarver Denoa, Michael and Julia C. Frederick. The History of Venezuela. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005.

Thibaud, Clement. Republicas en Armas: los Ejércitos Bolivarianos en la Guerra de Independencia en Colombia y Venezuela. Bogota: Planeta, 2003.