ABSTRACT
De la Cadena (2001) described how in many Latin American countries, visitors may observe a “relative ease with which pervasive and very visible discriminatory practices coexist with the denial of racism” (p. 16). Some might claim that the process of mestizaje, or widespread racial mixing, that took place in Venezuela, and which resulted in a great majority of its current population being of “mixed race,” implies that there is no significant racism in that country. I start from the principle of critical race theory, which states that racism is ubiquitous in American society (Delgado & Stefancic, 2013), and argue that this applies to Venezuelan society as well.
