Daniel Chavez

Daniel Chavez

TNI New Politics Programme Coordinator

Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan anthropologist specialising in Latin American politics and urban social and political movements. With an intimate knowledge of Latin American left politics and an advisor to various local governments on participatory local democracy, he is also editor of the La nueva izquierda en América Latina: sus orígenes y trayectoria futura (New Left in Latin America: its origins and future, with Patrick Barrett and Cesar García (Grupo Editorial Norma, 2005)  

Before moving to Europe he had worked for almost a decade for the United Federation of Mutual-Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM). Daniel currently co-ordinates the New TNI Politics Programme, in co-operation with Hilary Wainwright. He is also author of The Left in the City: Participatory Local Governments in Latin America with Benjamin Goldfrank (LAB, 2001).

Areas of expertise:

Left politics and emancipatory political thinking in Latin America; Chavez and Venezuela; participatory urban management, planning and governance; new social movements; public services reforms and alternatives to privatisation.

Contact

Telephone: + 31 20 662 66 08
Email: chavez AT tni.org

English, Spanish

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Selected publications

The New Latin American Left
The Left in the City
Polis & Demos

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Recent content by Daniel Chavez

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE): An exceptional public enterprise in an atypical social democracy

July 2013
Regional Alternatives in Latin America:
Despite immense pressure by corporations that have sought to undermine it, Costa Rica's public energy and telecommunications company stands out as a model in terms of its coverage, efficiency, social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

Venezuela and Latin America after Chávez

March 2013
By definition, a revolution is a collective process, not a one-man endeavour. While the social and political legacy of Hugo Chávez is remarkable, the Bolivarian Revolution has been intrinsically tied to him as the leader. With Chávez's death, the Boliviarian Revolution faces a fundamental test.

"The Big Blackout: Debunking the Myths of Power Privatisation

February 2013
Privatisation:
A video documentary on the impacts of neo-libaral power reforms worldwide and the search for democratic and sustainable energy policies. TNI/Living Films, December 2003

Biofuels production in Uruguay: an exception that proves the rule?

December 2012
The Uruguayan state-owned biofuels enterprise ALUR challenges many assumptions about the societal implications of biofuels production, as it supports local livelihoods, protects the environment, and is rooted in principles of social inclusion and national sovereignty.

The future of Public Enterprises in Latin America and the World

December 2012
Public Services & Democracy:
An international seminar in Montevideo, co-organised by TNI and the Uruguayan government, shared the latest learning and innovation by state-owned enterprises across Latin America and affirmed their importance as instruments for economic and social development.

The Left in the City

April 2007
The Left in the City explores examples of progressive parties in local office from across the continent, from Mexico to Uruguay and from Brazil to Peru, and examines the successes and failures of the Left in government.

Polis & Demos

October 2006
In reviewing and comparing experiments with participatory budgeting and democratisation in Montevideo and Porto Alegre, the book aims to contribute to a more extensive and deeper understandings of left politics and democratic public policies in Latin America and the Global South.

Lights Off!

May 2002
This briefing attempts to look beyond the promised benefits of the power sector liberalisation, and debunk some myths about power deregulation and privatisation worldwide.