Historia contemporánea de Venezuela

"Contemporary History of Venezuela" is a documentary and critical review of its recent history, an exhaustive gloss of the events and circumstances that occurred in a crucial section of the eventful republican life of this country, one of the richest in Latin America. In this way, this volume makes the new generations aware of the enormous military influence in all eras, including the democratic one in the best forty years of that history, and the communist or pseudo-communist one, more recently. The author criticizes in a reasoned and argued way that the militarist hegemony in the leadership of the State is intended to be maintained in the 21st century; a hegemony that lasted throughout the 19th century and a good part of the 20th. After the years of democracy that go from 1958 to 1998, seeing militarism reborn, with the justification of a series of reminiscences of the old communist theories, of the dictatorship of the proletariat or whatever one wants to call it, is for Antonio Ecarri Bolívar a historical regression, although it is intended to protect itself in the supposed ethical cloak of a "socialism of the 21st century". A book, therefore, essential for all those who want to delve fully into the recent past of a great country, as beautiful as it is tormented.