04/28/2026
We have teamed up with 🇻🇪 to curate a selection of materials on Latin American Punk to make it accessible at University libraries across the USA and Canada. Proceeds go towards to help finance initiatives for immigrants and political prisoners. Titles mostly cover Venezuelan punk, Latin American anarchism, and social movements. This collection also includes extra materials, like ephemera, that might not be reflected in these images.
“When the S*x Pistols’ album ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ was released in 1977, Venezuela was one of the six Latin American countries with a democratic government. A year earlier, in 1976, the State had nationalized the oil industry. For this reason, it had a political and economic situation different from other countries in the region, not exempt from social problems of all kinds. In 1978, the band Kamara de tortura appeared in the city of Maracay. In 1980, the PP’S group was formed in Caracas. Both started a path that would be followed by other bands, modifying the pop-rock scene of the country. During the 80’s and 90’s, punk bands would be the soundtrack of the crisis of the governance model that had been created in 1958, when the former dictator fled the country in an airplane. Today, Venezuela has returned to authoritarianism. However, the new generations of punks have left the territory as forced migrants. When the future is uncertain, they look to the past for inspiration.”
This collection of zines and books is for institutional acquisition. For single titles for independent people, you can reach out directly to the organizations.
Uzcátegui is a sociologist and the Co-Director of Laboratorio de Paz, an NGO dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela. Previously, he was the General Coordinator of PROVEA, another Caracas-based NGO focused on defending economic, social, and cultural human rights.
