I finished reading Building The Commune: Radical Democracy In Venezuela and put it up on ProleWiki, so now I'm skimming over it again to get rid of OCR issues and such. It's not specifically an ML analysis but I felt like it was a pretty good introduction to recent history (1980s-2016) of Venezuela with a focus on the communes and also some details on the 2014 opposition protests.

I started reading the biography of Esteban Montejo, who escaped slavery in Cuba in 1886, and later participated in the independence war. He was interviewed in the 1960s to make this biography, which is told from his perspective based on the interviews. I'm only partway through but it's been an interesting book so far that covers a lot of different topics including his observations on society, different forms of spirituality, plant knowledge, life in the forest/mountains after escaping, and about people around him.