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Introduction : new perspectives and the Chavez phenomenon / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas. -- The Venezuelan exceptionalism thesis : separating myth from reality / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas. -- Venezuelan social conflict in a global context / Edgardo Lander. -- U.S. oil companies in Venezuela : the forging of an enduring alliance / Miguel Tinker Salas. -- Chávez and the search for an alternative to neoliberalism / Dick Parker. -- Trade union autonomy and the emergence of a new labor movement in Venezuela / Steve Ellner. -- Ethnicity and revolution : the political economy of racism in Venezuela / Jesús María Herrera Salas. -- Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution : who are the Chavistas? / Cristóbal Valencia Ramírez. -- Social movements in a polarized setting : myths of Venezuelan civil society / María Pilar García-Guadilla. -- When "no" means "yes to revolution" : electoral politics in Bolivarian Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger. -- Confronting Hugo Chavez : U.S. "democracy promotion" in Latin America / Christopher I. Clement.