Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Map of Venezuela xii
5. Introduction. What People? Whose History? 1
6. One. A Guerrilla History 22
7. Two. Reconnecting with the Masses 45
8. Three. Birth of the ‘‘Tupamaros’’ 67
9. First Interlude. The Caracazo History Splits in Two 88
10. Four. Sergio’s Blood Student Struggles from the University to the Streets 105
11. Five. Manuelita’s Boots Women between Two Movements 126
12. Six. José Leonardo’s Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje 146
13. Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth 166
14. Seven. Venezuelan Workers Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class? 180
15. Eight. Oligarchs Tremble! Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State 200
16. Nine. A New Proletariat? Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets 218
17. Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State 234
18. Notes 257
19. Index 307