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Free Download Venezuela’s Collapse: The Long Story of How Things Fell Apart by Carlos Lizarralde
English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 9798884033856, ASIN: B0CXLN5R7V | True EPUB | 361 pages | 0.6 MB
How did Latin America’s exceptional democracy become a nearly failed state? Why would a leader firmly in control lead one of the planet’s richest countries into a humanitarian crisis? Conventional wisdom blames the madness of a populist leader who squandered an oil fortune. In Venezuela’s Collapse, Carlos Lizarralde offers an alternative account that places race, ethnicity, and the struggle over resources at the center of the Hugo Chavez story.

Free Download Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies: A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation By Germán Massabié (auth.)
2008 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 3531159941 | PDF | 4 MB
In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the country is trying to introduce additional renewable energy sources (RES) but still has to overcome a series of hurdles in order to deploy them. Unlike other developing countries, oil countries such as Venezuela do not lack financial means and sometimes show a tendency to solve problems by using money when other approaches could be more helpful. The main goal of this qualitative, comparative policy analysis is to find out whether the availability of oil revenues restraints or favors the adoption of RES. Based on the rentier state theory, Germán Massabié examines the reasons why Petro states try to dispose of their natural wealth to take advantage of non-conventional energy sources. He analyses and interprets primary and secondary data collected in Germany and in Venezuela and draws on interviews with Venezuelan experts, policy makers, and key actors. The study allows a look beyond laws, development programs, and official statements.

Free Download Mónica Amor, "Theories of the Nonobject: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, 1944-1969"
English | ISBN: 0520286626 | 2016 | 344 pages | PDF | 73 MB
Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. Mónica Amor, a native of Venezuela, presents case studies of specific movements, artists, and critics, tracing their role in the significant reconceptualization of the artwork that Brazilian critic and poet Ferreira Gullar heralded in "Theory of the Nonobject," a seminal essay published in 1959 in the Suplemento Dominical do Jornal do Brasil. Based on deep archival research, this distinctive book brings scholarly attention to a group of major art figures, including Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Gego, whose work proposed engaged forms of spectatorship that dismissed medium-based understandings of art. Exploring the philosophical, economic, and political underpinnings of geometric abstraction in post-World War II South America, Amor highlights the overlapping inquiries of artists and critics who, working on the periphery of European and US modernism, contributed to a sophisticated conversation about the nature of the art object.

Free Download Teresa Kramarz, "Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador: The People’s Oil?"
English | ISBN: 3030709620 | 2021 | 139 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book addresses the intersection of extractivism, populism, and accountability. Although populist politics are often portrayed as a driver of poor environmental governance, Populist Moments and Extractivist States identifies it as an intervening variable at best – one that emerges in response to the accountability deficits of extractive states. Case studies in Venezuela – for many, the prototypical petrostate – and Ecuador – which exchanged agribusiness dependency for oil decades later – illustrate how extractive states are oriented by a colonial logic of export and service. This logic regulates state-society-nature relationships and circumscribes avenues for local stakeholders to hold public officials and extractive industries to account for environmental and human harms. Populist moments of the early 21st century across Latin America responded to these conditions, promising more equitable and sustainable futures. However, rather than reversing the technocracy, verticalism, and exclusion of the recent past, populist moments often intensified and legitimated them in the drive to maximize and distribute resource rents. The result has been cyclical, as populist moments of hope and rupture fall prey to the extractivist states they tried, and failed, to replace.

Free Download Taste of Vegetarian – Venezuela – 10 January 2024
English | 60 pages | True PDF | 60.1 MB

Free Download Giovanna Montenegro, "German Conquistadors in Venezuela: The Welsers’ Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory"
English | ISBN: 0268203210 | 2022 | 372 pages | EPUB | 12 MB

Free Download The Rise and Fall of the Oil Nation Venezuela by Carlos A. Rossi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 574 Pages | ISBN : 3031346599 | 82.7 MB
This book explains why Venezuela is so rich in natural resources-it has been producing oil since 1922 and harbors the largest oil reserves in the world-and yet it is also a failed nation of class-divided citizens exhibiting deep poverty in a corrupt, incompetent state. Venezuela is a bipolar nation, where two marked poles in the society exist which have historical origins and are mutually exclusive.