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Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power: Decentralization, Participatory Budgeting, Communal Councils and Comunes

By Keith Preston on September 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

By María Pilar García-Guadilla and Carlos G. Torrealba

COMMUNES in Venezuela, once hopeful experiments in local direct democracy and popular power under the socialism of the XXI century have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping the country. . What can we learn from their demise?

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