[rockwool]

In the book Voices from Venezuela the Australian authors Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy give RM's biggest controversy, the Bolivarian Revolution, the well needed intellectual weight that I sadly have failed to give.

The Bolivarian revolution emerged as a protest movement against the corrupt two-party oligarchy that was set up, with US blessing, to replace Perez Jimenez (Venezuelas last dictator that was ousted in 1958).

Over 40 years, Christian Democrat and Social Democrat administrations alternated, often posing as friends of revolution in other Latin American countries, but letting the obscenely wealthy Venezuelan elite send at least $100 billion abroad while millions of their compatriots starved, died of preventable diseases and remained mired in illiteracy and ignorance.

The quote was choosen to make visible the comparison with the VE of today. Overall the article is a small orientation of what and how things generally are percieved by Venezuelans and what has made the revolution successful.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3914