Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their countrys crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime. Venezuela in Crisis brings together a diverse array of Venezuelan thinkers and activists to grapple with the question of how and why the aspirations for what Hugo Chavez deemed socialism in the twenty-first century gave way to the deepest economic collapse in all of South America. While recognizing the devastating impact ofand militantly opposingUS sanctions, the contributors to this volume argue against the simplistic view that all would be well if not for US meddling. Rather, they argue that from governmental mismanagement to rising repression, the regime of Nicols Maduro deserves a significant share of the blame for Venezuelas ongoing crisis. With chapters focused on the Maduro governments economic policies, its continuities and breaks from the Chavez era, its erosion of democratic processes in the country, and its doubling down on extractivism, Venezuela in Crisis is an indispensable guide for international solidarity activists and for anyone looking for a nuanced understanding of Venezuelas crisis. With a perspective that is at once anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-authoritarian, this volume never loses sight of the need to stand with the Venezuelan people rather than their governmenteven when it claims to be struggling to build socialism.