Hugo!
Subtitle: the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution
By: Bart Jones
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9781847920058
Subjects: Presidents; Biography; Politics and government; Presidenter; Politik och förvaltning
Description: "The ruling elites in Venezuela and the United States are keen to paint Chavez as the heir to Castro, but the truth is more complex and more interesting." "The Chavez that emerges from Jones' account is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. He is a master politician and an inspired improviser, a Bolivarian nationalist and an unashamed socialist. His policies have brought him into conflict with the IMF and World Bank, major oil companies and the USA. They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina." "When in December 2006 he declared at the UN that 'the devil came here yesterday the President of the United States', it was clear that, right or wrong, one man was taking on the might of most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-542) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hurricane Hugo; title: Roots of rebellion; title: A revolutionary is born; title: Testing the waters; title: A sacred oath; title: The conspiracy deepens; title: First betrayals; title: The massacre; title: Waiting in the wings; title: Rebellion of the angels; title: Jail; title: Secret comandante's good-bye; title: On the road; title: Beauty and the beast; title: To power; title: A birth and a tragedy; title: First defections; title: Oil man; title: First revolts and return of the Iran-Contra crowd; title: The coup; title: The president is missing; title: The aftermath; title: Oil strike; title: The social missions; title: The recall; title: Striking back; title: Twenty-first-century socialism.