chavism

2004/2007

The process happening in Venezuela, the "Revolucion Bolivariana", started in 1998 with the electoral victory of the Colonel Hugo Chàvez Frìas. He promotes a political doctrine of democratic socialism and Latin American integration. Hugo Chàvez is a complicated contemporary figure: his politic is a mix of revolution, populism, autoritarism and new global istances.
The real soul of the Venezuelan experience is represented by the people organization; the constitution of 1999 contemplate the articulation of each community in self-sufficient entities able to play an active role.
Chavez and the Bolivarian Movement were able to share a sense of identity, of belonging and organization to a multitude of powers until then broken and incapable of feeling like a political alternative. To avoid dangerous degeneration and to realize the ideal of direct and participative democracy it is necessary to develop the organization of the people of Venezuela who, by now, is no longer possible to keep aside; and, maybe, this target could be realized only with the overcoming of Chavez himself. This body of work is a trip into the center of the Bolivarian revolution, Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. A city full of contradictions, where fear and hope dance together on passionate latins rhythms.

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