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Hugo Chavez: The Definitive Biography Of Venezuela'S Controversial President,Used
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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 Chvez 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, Chvez found his interests radically altered when he entered the military academy in Caracas. There, as Hugo Chvez 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 Chvez 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 Andrs Prez, an action that ended in a spectacular failure but gave Chvez his first irresistible taste of celebrity and laid the groundwork for his ascension to the presidency eight years later.Here is the truth about Chvezs revolutionary Bolivarian government, which stresses economic reforms meant to discourage corruption and empower the poorwhile 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 whocondemns George W. Bush in the most fiery language but at the same time hires lobbyists to improve his countrys image in the West. The authors examine not only Chvezs political career but also his personal lifeincluding 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 Chvezs favoritism has caused private tension and public talk.This seminal biography is filled with exclusive excerpts from Chvezs 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 Chvez is an essential work about a man whose power, peculiarities, and passion for the global spotlight only continue to grow.
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