Despite the numerous studies that have been generated as a result of the impact caused by the Latin American progressive decade and having greatly varied the subcontinental context whose cycle was interrupted by the victory of Mauricio Macri in Argentina; giving way to a neo-conservative advance that despite being positioned quite quickly is once again questioned, the nature of the processes that unfolded in that period remains an enigma, both 2because there is no agreement in the academy about how they should be categorized as because many of the investigations carried out in the heat of events have a strong normative burden, limiting their analytical scope.

What is intended with the carried out dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of the events that occurred in Venezuela since the electoral victory of Hugo Chávez in 1998 until his death in 2013, specifically with regard to the Social Missions, understood as a center of all Chavista social policy. To achieve this, a post-structuralist notion of populism was used in order to articulate the ambivalent game existing between Chavismo as a hegemonic political identity and the resulting transformations brought about in the State, using social citizenship as a vehicle that communicates rupture and institutionalization moments, base and theoretical proposal of the research.

Key Words: Social policy, Populism, Social citizenship