The National Project “Simón Bolívar” and the Bolivarian Alternative Agenda in the origins of Chavism (1992-1996)

Abstract

Between the years of 1991 and 1992, the Bolivarian Revolution Movement 200 (MBR-200) made a document called the Simón Bolívar National Project (PNSB). It exposed an ideology that pretends to fight all dogmatism and develop a project anchored in the resistant Latin American history, according to different temporalities. It was suggested to search for a new code of laws from the figure of the National Constituent Assembly as the framework of a "new society¨", which has been expressed in 1996 in the Bolivarian Alternative Agenda (AAB) as a political and economic program to find the way out of neoliberalism. Among one document and the other, a set of civil and military overlaps over decades, tried to formulate themselves in a ¨Constituent Program¨, and in documents known as ¨"decrees" which, based on the condensation of different political experiences, developed the program for insurrections of 1992. The PNSB and the AAB present, under the same political and ideological conception, different times of concretion; the PNSB as a set of ideas of the MBR-200, and the AAB as a political and economic proposal to get out of the neoliberal crisis, and of the pact that Venezuelan politics had organized for over 35 years.