Hugo!
Subtitle: The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
Publisher: Steerforth
Published: September 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781586421359
Subjects: Federal Government; South America - History; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Military; Political; Presidents & Heads of State; Current Events / Political; 1999-; Biography; Châavez Frâias, Hugo; Politics and government; Presidents; Venezuela
Description: "Bart Jones knows Venezuela intimately and was an eyewitness to President Hugo Ch?vez?s rise to power. In Hugo! he tells the story of Ch?vez?s impoverished childhood, his military career and the decade of clandestine political activity that ended in a failed attempt to seize power in 1992. He describes the election campaign against a former Miss Universe that finally won Ch?vez the Presidency and the dramatic reversals of fortune that have marked it: the struggle to reform the Venezuelan economy, the coup attempt of 2002 in which he was kidnapped and faced summary execution, and the oil industry strike that followed" -- publisher website (February 2008).