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The article focuses on history of the periodical Patria circulation during the 20th century. Topics discussed include articles in the periodical accompanied by information of commercial and agricultural interest; the history of western Venezuela and protection of the periodical copies by the Newspaper Room or Newspaper Library of the Central Library of the University of Los Andes for public access.

We examine short stories produced in Venezuela at the beginning of the 21st century, with the aim of understanding how social memory is constructed and recorded. In this endeavor we uncover the phenomena, processes, customs and actors that appear as themes in these productions. We analyze the role that literary narrative has in relation to collective imagination. This includes creating, questioning, and extending the already-existing significance of private and collective life in the country. We analyze done stories published by Venezuelan writers between 2004-2012. This research can be classified in the line of literary imagology. This involves the hermeneutic study of literary images within the framework of fictional and social imaginary relative to the representation of the "other". Our approach to the representation of contemporary Venezuelan social memory through narrative refers to both the country's identity and that of its inhabitants, and of alternate fictional worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article highlights the history of Venezuela with million of Indigenous population. It reviews on its mortality rates, humanitarian crisis, and high levels of illness and death; also focuses on healthcare in inaccessible Indigenous communities, the positive efforts of the Malaria Control Programmes and the Oncocercosis Control Programme of the Amazonian Centre for the Research.

Nineteenth-century republicans across the political spectrum agreed: the Spanish monarchy produced 'miserable Indians'. Abolishing tribute and privatising communal lands, known as resguardos in New Granada (roughly today's Panama and Colombia), would transform that wretched class into equal citizens. Drawing on late eighteenth-century privatisation efforts by the Spanish Crown, early republican leaders in Gran Colombia inaugurated an era seeking equal access to wealth from communal land for all indigenous community members. After Gran Colombia (the first Colombian Republic, 1819–30) dissolved into New Granada, Ecuador and Venezuela in 1830, New Granada's experiments with indigenous resguardo policies went further. By then, legislative efforts considered the needs of all resguardo members, including unmarried mothers and their illegitimate children. Complex laws, diverse ecological terrain and nuanced social realities required well-trained surveyors to ensure each eligible indigenous family received a fair share of land. Whereas indigenous communities in Pasto, Santa Marta and the Cauca river valley resorted to armed insurrection against liberal policies through the War of the Supremes (1839–42), those in the highlands near Bogotá did not. Instead, these republican indígenas – with their greater access to the levers of power housed in the national capital – chose to engage in the reforms of a decentralising state. This article reveals how contentious experiments seeking republican equality within indigenous resguardos as a path towards abolishing the institution were consistently stymied by efforts to ensure that indigenous community governance and communal landholding remained intact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay exposes the existence of an alternative archive on the memory of the nineties. Through the analysis of the novels Pim Pam Pum (1998) by Alejandro Rebolledo, La última vez (2007) by Héctor Bujanda, Bajo tierra (2009) by Gustavo Valle (2009) and Valle zamuro (2011) by Camilo Pino, I establish a constitutive uprooting that escape from the nostalgic discourses of political polarization. The definition of the Black Friday Generation is proposed to talk about youth subjectivities that suggest a historical continuity between neoliberalism at the end of the 20th century and the Bolivarian Revolution at the beginning of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a study aimed at analyzing the history of corruption and anti-corruption in Venezuela in 20th century. Topics discussed include presidential slush fund issued in 1919, revolutionary movement started by Venezuelan political party Acción Democrática party (AD) and payments to presidents' allies. It further discusses transfer of public funds, legitimation of presidential discretion, public goods in the country, gray corruption in Venezuela and neopatrimonial mechanism of payments.

Pasar de ser la vitrina de Occidente en el Caribe durante la Guerra Fría a proclamar el socialismo en el siglo XXI hace de Venezuela uno de los casos más inusuales de la historia. Los hombres y las mujeres que impulsaron esa vuelta al socialismo fueron, paradójicamente, hijos de la Gran Venezuela. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How did governance in Kirchner's Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela interact with popular mobilisation? How have popular sectors engaged with and participated in Left-of-centre governance? Using ethnographic data, we argue that the answers to these questions lie in three social mechanisms that we call recognition, incorporation and selective mobilisation. We analyse how activists and participants interpreted and contested these mechanisms, paying attention to how they informed the everyday life of activism and the situated actions of participants. Underscoring their socially embedded and path-dependent nature, we argue that these mechanisms shaped mobilisation differently in each country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the construction and circulation of historical memories of the Coro slave rebellion in Venezuela between 1795 and 2014. We show how historical interpreters have inscribed divergent representations of this rebellion in documents, landscapes, historiographies, monuments, and music. In a political climate defined by ethnoracial and political tensions, colonial elites saw in the rebellion the republican ideology and racial violence of the Haitian Revolution. Fearing the persistence of social divisions and political resentment, nineteenth-century republican leaders all but effaced the rebellion from the nation's historical memory. This episode was finally recovered by historians at the beginning of the twentieth century, and since the 1950s teachers, guerrilla members, and social activists have linked the rebellion to political discourses of ethnoracial struggle, cultural syncretism, bodily suffering, and social exclusion. Recently, communal organizations in the region have begun to connect it to contemporary anti-imperialist and socialist projects. We argue that historical memories have mobilized political identities at different times and imagined regional genealogies of struggle against imperialism and political oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to give an account of the main changes in the Venezuelan prison system in the last three decades. This period extends from the years of neoliberal hegemony to the period of the Bolivarian revolution, characterized by a strong commitment to redistributive policies, economic regulation and social inclusion strategies. We point out that while the Bolivarian government has adopted a social welfare model, it has continued to rely upon punitive policies that are most often associated with neoliberal governments. We map out this contradiction and discuss the impacts the current government's penal policies have had on social relations within the prison system. Using ethnographic data we sketch out the social organization and distribution of power that develops when the state loses control of the prison. We show that prisons in Venezuela do not adhere to a disciplinary model, whereby prisoners must submit to an external administration's intensive surveillance and control. Instead, what has developed is a form of internal governance administered by prisoners themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article establishes a dialogue between the posthegemonic theory developed by Jon Beasley-Murray and the postsubalternity of John Beverley. We study how these formulations think of the role of the state, the validity of the nation and, finally, the place of the identity, territorial, and political representation claims of Latin American social movements, which are increasingly integrated to the structure of the state in the governments of the so-called "pink tide". We do not lose track of the specificity of the Venezuelan phenomena, since at some points it seems to work as a limit case for both theoretical definitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The 21st century has witnessed increasing dissatisfaction with existing democratic institutions and processes and the growth of alternatives to representative democracy. At the same time arguments are emerging that conventional standards for evaluating democracy are ‘out of touch’ with current realities; in particular, with popular understandings, experiences and aspirations of what democracy should look like. This paper draws on empirical research in Caracas, Venezuela into how Venezuelan people understand democracy, in order to build a case that current evaluatory benchmarks are inadequate for understanding complex processes of social change based on more direct and participatory forms of democratic engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on historical studies of books and libraries in Venezuela. It discusses whether the country is taking necessary measures to undertake research for the purpose of generating new contributions in this field. It explains from a historical-cultural perspective the importance of libraries as cultural spaces where the author-book-reader relationship develops.

The article focuses on the works of German painter and naturalist Ferdinand K. Bellermann on the historical-cultural studies of the Venezuelan Andes. It highlights the importance of the work of Bellermann as a source for historical and cultural studies. It discusses both the value of his drawings and oil paintings from his travel diaries during the period 1844-1845.

The article reports on the phenomenon of warlordism in Venezuela during the formation of national state in the 18th century Latin America. It discusses how this phenomenon has decisively influenced the development of political, social and military events in Venezuela, triggered after the Spanish invasion until today.

The article focuses on the history of socio-spatial formations in Venezuelan territory in the 18th century. Topics discussed include elements for understanding the socio-spatial formations in the territory; the relationship between the recent territorial disposition of human settlements in Venezuela, and the historical processes that led to it; and spatial dynamics before the arrival of the first Europeans to the American landscapes.

The article presents a report on social conflicts in Merida during the decline of Hispanic dominance in the 18th century Venezuela. The report was presented during the Symposium No. 5 entitled "Urban Spaces, Conflicts and Passions in Spanish America" held under the XVII International Congress of the Association of Historians European Latin Americanists in Berlin, Germany in September 2014.

This article presents an interview with Venezuelan historian Germán Carrera Damas. He discusses the role and social responsibility of the modern historian in Venezuela and comments on the importance of historical and cultural knowledge among the general population. He also considers the relationship between history and politics.

This article discusses the historical philosophy espoused by Venezuelan academic Miguel Acosta Saignes. The author comments on Saignes' multidisciplinary approach to historical and historiographical research. He also considers the relationship between history and ethnology (ethnohistory) and other social processes. The relationship between history and culture, traditions, and customs is examined and Saignes' analysis of cultural studies in Venezuela throughout the 20th century is also explored.

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El artículo presenta una crítica literaria de Eduardo Santos sobre el libro "Cesarismo democrático" de Laureano Vallenilla Lanz y la respuesta de Lanz a Santos. Lanz comenta sobre su representación de la historia de Venezuela y defiende su tesis acerca del desarrollo del país. Por otro lado, Santos critica la falta de imparcialidad por parte de Lanz.

This article discusses the historic building presently associated with the Universidad de Mérida in Venezuela. The author comments on the history of the building dating from the 16th century and continuing through the mid-20th century, which saw use as a Jesuit convent and seminary, a home for friar Juan Ramos de Lora, and an academic institution. The historical, religious, and social importance of this building to the surrounding community as well as the nation of Venezuela as a whole, is also explored.

This article discusses the history of the petroleum industry in Venezuela, with a particular focus on its relationship to the Venezuelan government and legal system. The author comments on the history of the implementation of laws and legislation related to the petroleum industry. He examines the 2001 Ley de Hidrocarburos (Hydrocarbons Law) and provides a historical analysis of government relations with the industry throughout the country's history, dating from the late 16th century, when Venezuela was a Spanish colony.

Since 2000, multiple historical films and documentaries have been released that reference different stages of Venezuelan history. This trend reflects a society persistently exploring its past, mirrored in part by the policies of the Venezuelan government toward its cultural institutions. By analyzing historical films Taita Boves (2010) and Zamora (2009), this article explores some of the ideological currents that traverse Venezuelan society, raising questions about the role of film in social and political life. Ultimately, this essay contributes to the debate around the constitution of a national historical consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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An interview with Venezuelan historian and professor Edda O. Samudio Aizpurúa from Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela is presented. Subjects include the influence of her family on the choice of history as a profession, her work on the history of the state of Mérida, Venezuela and the study of history in Venezuela.

Reviewing the country's history since 1940 helps explain where we are, and where we are headed – according to the prologue of Uno, an anthology of José Balza's writings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the process of the construction of the Republic, in the 19th Century, non-white sectors of Venezuelan society attempted to legitimise themselves through photographs in their cart-de-visite, with the object of ratifying their position in this 'coffee and milk' society. The use of such technology, as well as the introduction and acceptance of urbanity handbooks, were part of a process in which these sectors tried to 'modernise', reflecting related social tensions, for example, the urban-rural dichotomy or the need for 'whitening' themselves in the eyes of their fellow citizens. The purpose of this paper is to study the way in which photographic portraits and urbanity handbooks act in a society in which social and economic differences and distances have undergone a great upheaval since the independence process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presenta un ensayo sobre la idea de refundación del país en la historia de Venezuela. El ensayo discute las raíces de esta idea a través de un análisis del concepto que la clase política tiene acerca de los sectores populares, así como las características más resaltantes de la sociedad venezolana. Se discute también el proyecto de modernización del país, el cual se repite en todos los proyectos de gobierno.