Archive of The Bolivarian Revolution

Featuring works from distinguished intellectuals and key political leaders, Verso's Venezuela reading list provides the anlytical insight and historical context necessary to understand the ongoing political crisis in the country 

On this day in 1791, The Haitian Revolution began with a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman. The revolution against against French colonial rule radicalised the spirit of the French Revolution by expanding its aims to cover the universal human emancipation, and lead to the first free black republic.

It seemed to me that the ‘enigma of the two faces of Chávez’ was resolved by simply observing that in his personality two temperaments existed side by side: a rational, logical, Cartesian, pragmatic mind cohabiting with an altruistic, affectionate, enthusiastic, chaotic, sentimental nature.