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Hugo! : the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution

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  • "Qiṣṣat Hughū Tshāvīz min al-kūkh al-ṭīnī ilá al-thawrah al-mustamirrah"

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  • ""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)."
  • "Ruling elites in Venezuela, the United States and Europe, and even Hugo ChAvez himself though for different reasons, have been eager to have the world view him as the heir to Fidel Castro. But the truth about this increasingly influential world leader is more complex, and more interesting. The ChAvez that emerges from Bart Jones' carefully researched and documented biography is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. He has an undeniably autocratic streak, and yet has been freely and fairly re-elected to his nations presidency three times with astonishing margins of victory. 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 International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and major oil companies. They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. When in September 2006 he declared at the United Nations that 'the devil came here yesterday ' the President of the United States', it was clear that he was taking on challenging the most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. From the Trade Paperback edition."

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  • "Biography"
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  • "¡Hugo! : the Hugo Chavez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution"
  • "Hugo! : the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution"
  • "Hugo! : the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution"@en
  • "Hūghū : qiṣat Hūghū tshāfīz min al-kūkh al-ṭīnī ilá al-thawrah al-mustamirah"
  • "Hugo!"
  • "Hugo : The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution"
  • "¡Hugo! the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution"@en
  • "¡Hugo! the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution"
  • "Hūghū : qiṣṣat Hūghū Tshāvīz min al-kūkh al-ṭīnī ilá al-thawrah al-mustamirrah"
  • "هوغو : قصة هوغو تشاڤيز من الكوخ الطيني إلى الثورة المستمرة"
  • "¡Hugo! : the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution"
  • "Hugo! : the Hugo Chavez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution"

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