The Chavez Code
Author: Eva Golinger
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExposes the CIA's attempts to bring down Latin America's most popular leader
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Author: Eva Golinger
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExposes the CIA's attempts to bring down Latin America's most popular leader
Author: Eva Golinger
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Published: 2005-09-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781567513486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Common Courage Press
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ISBN-13: 9781567513493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cristina Marcano
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007-08-14
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1588366502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, and antagonize America. Born in a small town on the Venezuelan plains, Chávez found his interests radically altered when he entered the military academy in Caracas. There, as Hugo Chávez reveals in dramatic detail, he was drawn to leftist politics and a new sense of himself as predestined to change the fortunes of his country and Latin America as a whole. Portrayed as never before is the double life Chávez soon began to lead: by day he was a family man and a military officer, but by night he secretly recruited insurgents for a violent overthrow of the government. His efforts would climax in an attempted coup against President Carlos Andrés Pérez, an action that ended in a spectacular failure but gave Chávez his first irresistible taste of celebrity and laid the groundwork for his ascension to the presidency eight years later. Here is the truth about Chávez’s revolutionary “Bolivarian” government, which stresses economic reforms meant to discourage corruption and empower the poor–while the leader spends seven thousand dollars a day on himself and cozies up to Arab oil elites. Venezuelan journalists Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka explore the often crude and comical public figure who condemns George W. Bush in the most fiery language but at the same time hires lobbyists to improve his country’s image in the West. The authors examine not only Chávez’s political career but also his personal life–including his first marriage, which was marked by a long affair and the birth of a troubled son, and his second marriage, which produced a daughter toward whom Chávez’s favoritism has caused private tension and public talk. This seminal biography is filled with exclusive excerpts from Chávez’s own diary and draws on new research and interviews with such insightful subjects as Herma Marksman, the professor who was his mistress for nine years. Hugo Chávez is an essential work about a man whose power, peculiarities, and passion for the global spotlight only continue to grow.
Author: Nikolas Kozloff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1403984093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely look at Venezuela's controversial president Hugo Chavez
Author: Eva Golinger
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this revealing new study, Eva Golinger employs declassified documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and a variety of international sources to uncover an ongoing campaign to contain and cripple the democratically elected government of Latin America's leading oil power. [This book] details how millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to fund groups - such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Office for Transition - with the express purpose of supporting counter-revolutionary groups in Venezuela. It explores, as well, a build-up of U.S. military troops, operations, and exercises in the Caribbean that threatens the Venezuelan people and government. [This book] exposes Washington's efforts to subvert a socialist revolution for the twenty-first century."--Cover.
Author: Javier Corrales
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0815705026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime—an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America. Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Chávez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Chávez ran for president. It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions—the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments—but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Chávez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Chávez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.
Author: Barry Cannon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1847797199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America’s most enduring political traditions – populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has taken hold throughout the region and democracy is supposedly the ‘only game in town’. This book examines the phenomenon that is Hugo Chávez within these contexts, assessing to what extent his government fits into established ideas on populism in Latin America. The book also provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of Chávez’s emergence, his government’s social and economic policies, its foreign policy, as well as assessing the charges of authoritarianism brought against him. Written in clear, accessible prose, the book carries debate beyond current polarised views on the Venezuelan president, to consider the prospects of the new Bolivarian model surviving beyond its leader and progenitor, Hugo Chávez.
Author: Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781575056524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated biography of Cesar Chavez, who worked to improve conditions for farm workers by helping to establish a union for them and by leading strikes to raise their pay and better their working conditions.
Author: Jeri Cipriano
Publisher: Red Chair Press
Published: 2020-08-01
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1634409736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a child, Cesar Chavez worked on farms with his family. He felt the workers were not treated well. Cesar used his voice to become a leader in making sure farm workers were paid better and treated fairly.