Confidante of Tyrants - The Story of the American Woman Trusted by the Us's Biggest Enemies (Paperback)

`I had breakfast with Hugo Chavez, lunch with Bashar al-Assad, cocktails with Putin and dinner with Qadafi. Fidel Castro wooed me with flowers, perfume and cigars. Ahmadinejad told me he loved me. Chavez proclaimed me `The Girlfriend of Venezuela'. But I am not a spy, and I am not a traitor.' When US lawyer Eva Golinger first spent some time in Venezuela uncovering her ancestral roots, she little realized how the country was going to change her life. Within a few years she had become an enthusiast for the Bolivarian Revolution and a close confidante of its charismatic leader, Hugo Chavez. She achieved worldwide notoriety by exposing and condemning US intervention in Venezuela and ended up travelling with Chavez all over the world, spending time with many other controversial leaders. In this frank and disarming memoir, she tells the full story of her time in Chavez's inner circle and reflects on what she has learned about revolutionary politics, about the dangers of authoritarian populism - and about herself.