Caracas, Venezuela, April 2011: Today I am meeting up with Miriam1again, the community worker from the state institution Fundacomunal. As I approach the curve connecting the neighborhoods of Casalta 2 and Casalta 3, I can see her sitting in a jeep from the Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Energía y Petróleo (Ministry of Popular Power for Energy and Petro…
The book is very much an intervention in a debate or, better, in a series of debates. This is perhaps true of all political books, but in this case it is very explicit. ‘The desired use value of this book is to act as a key intervention in these contemporary discourses to point out that we can neither address inequalities and unsust…