- Title
- Reinventing the lefts in Latin America: critical perspectives from below
- Creator
- Motta, Sara C.
- Relation
- Latin American Perspectives Vol. 40, Issue 4, p. 5-18
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582X13489665
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Introduction: The Venezuelan popular educator and activist Joel Linares tells us, in Pablo Navarrete’s 2009 film Inside the Revolution, that “one morning in Guarenas, behind the mountains [on the outskirts of Caracas], at 5 a.m. on February 27, 1989, a woman tried to get on the bus. When she refused to pay the new bus fare, the driver pushed her. When the driver pushed her, that was the beginning of everything. . . . The other passengers . . . got up from their seats and attacked the bus with sticks and then turned it upside down and burned it.” The popular uprising known as the Caracazo that emerged from this event turned isolated acts of resistance into mass rebellion and challenged “normal” politics. Those who had been silenced by the elite pact of developmentalism and its descent into neoliberalism began to speak as political subjects. The Caracazo marked the beginning of a new era of popular struggle in Venezuela and, arguably, across Latin America.
- Subject
- Latin America; capitalism; left perspective
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1295463
- Identifier
- uon:19033
- Identifier
- ISSN:0094-582X
- Language
- eng
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