Title: Hugo Chavez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuela's Controversial President
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 067945666X
ISBN 13: 9780679456667
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.39 pounds

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He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Ch�vez 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, Ch�vez found his interests radically altered when he entered the military academy in Caracas. There, as Hugo Ch�vez 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 Ch�vez 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 Andr�s P�rez, an action that ended in a spectacular failure but gave Ch�vez his first irresistible taste of celebrity and laid the groundwork for his ascension to the presidency eight years later.
Here is the truth about Ch�vez’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 Ch�vez’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 Ch�vez’s favoritism has caused private tension and public talk.

This seminal biography is filled with exclusive excerpts from Ch�vez’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 Ch�vez is an essential work about a man whose power, peculiarities, and passion for the global spotlight only continue to grow.

About the Author

Cristina Marcano is a journalist with extensive experience in the Venezuelan media. She has worked as the chief of international information and the political subeditor for the newspaper El Nacional in Caracas. She currently works as a correspondent for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and as an independent collaborator for El Nacional.

Alberto Barrera Tyszka is a widely read Sunday editorial columnist for El Nacional. In 2006 he won the prestigious Herralde literary prize for his novel La Enfermedad. He is the author of several books and regularly publishes in Letras Libres.

Mois�s Na�m is a former minister for trade and industry of Venezuela, and is currently the editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine.

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