Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Alejandro Velasco

Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela

Alejandro Velasco

344 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America's most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was risin...

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