He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders
currently in power. In this international bestseller, Hugo Chavez
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, Chavez found his interests radically altered when he
entered the military academy in Caracas. There, as Hugo Chavez
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 Chavez 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 Andres
Perez, an action that ended in a spectacular failure but gave
Chavez his first irresistible taste of celebrity and laid the
groundwork for his ascension to the presidency eight years later.
Here is the truth about Chavez'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 Chavez'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 Chavez's favoritism
has caused private tension and public talk. This seminal biography
is filled with exclusive excerpts from Chavez'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 Chavez is an essential work about a man whose power,
peculiarities, and passion for the global spotlight only continue
to grow.
"Hugo Chavez: Sin uniforme" es la primera biografia profesional
sobre uno de los mas polemicos estadistas de America Latina, Hugo
Chavez Frias. El libro logra mantenerse a distancia, con una mirada
objetiva, frente a la realidad polarizada que vive hoy
Venezuela.
Como bien apunta el escritor y periodista argentino Tomas Eloy
Martinez, "los documentos que aportan Marcano y Barrera son
abundantes e inesperados: desde centenares de entrevistas,
incluyendo una, crucial, a Herma Marksman, la profesora de historia
que fue amante de Chavez durante los nueve anos previos a su
ascenso al poder, hasta un cuadro de indices sociales, una
bibliografia exhaustiva y fragmentos del diario intimo que Chavez
llevo hasta hace menos de una decada''.
El diario espanol ABC, en la pluma de Eduardo Posada Carbo, senala:
"Lejos de subestimarlo, la biografia de Marcano y Barrera -en una
narrativa cautivante, basada en ricos y diversos testimonios, y con
un juicio que sin ser neutral sabe guardar distancias-, ofrece el
retrato de un politico sagaz y perseverante, vanidoso cultivador de
su popularidad, ambicioso, capaz de convertir los momentos adversos
en oportunidades favorables. Democrata? A sus seguidores, les ha
dicho que la oposicion no volvera al gobierno ni por las malas ni
por las buenas. A Bush, Chavez le ha lanzado una apuesta, a ver
quien dura mas, si el en la Casa Blanca o yo aqui en Miraflores.
Mayores incognitas surgen de la direccion de su proyecto politico
que, por encima de cualquier posible ambiguedad, se distingue -como
concluyen Marcano y Barrera-, por sus deseos de poder y mas
poder''.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
