Chapter 1 — The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America 1
4. Chapter 1 — The Right Hand of the Party: The Role of Peasants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution 25
5. Chapter 2 — Rebellion, Revolution, and Reversal in Ecuador’s Countryside 50
6. Chapter 3 — At the Crossroads of Power 71
7. Chapter 4 — The Catholic Church, Peasants, and Revolution in Northern Morazán, El Salvador 96
8. Chapter 5 — Peasants, Crime, and War in Rural Mexico 121
9. Chapter 6 — Peasant Wars in Brazil 142
10. Chapter 7 — Forgetting Peasants: History, “Indigeneity,” and the Anthropology of Revolution in Bolivia 167
11. Afterword: Reading Eric Wolf as a Public Intellectual Today 195
12. Index 213