{"pk":36731,"title":"Martinez, Carlos, Michael Fox and JoJo Farrell.  Venezuela Speaks!  Voices from the \tGrassroots. Oakland, CA:  PM Press, 2010. 343 pp.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this collection of testimonies Venezuelan community leaders share the history of popular movements in Venezuela that pre-date the Chavez administration.  These testimonies also reveal the continuous compromises and challenges with the current administration defying the over-simplified representation of Venezuelan popular movements. The testimonies show a complicated Venezuelan reality that the mainstream media frequently overlooks with its exclusive focus on Chavez.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Copyright","short_name":"Copyright","text":"","url":"https://escholarship.org/terms"},"keywords":[{"word":"Venezuela"},{"word":"grassroots"},{"word":"popular participation"},{"word":"alternative media"},{"word":"testimony"},{"word":"Film/Cinema/Video Studies"},{"word":"Latin American literature"}],"section":"Book Reviews","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nd1q3fr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michelle Leigh","middle_name":"","last_name":"Farrell","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgetown University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2010-03-16T02:00:00-05:00","date_accepted":"2010-03-16T02:00:00-05:00","date_published":"2010-07-07T02:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/mester/article/36731/galley/27573/download/"}]}