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Hugo : the Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution

Bart Jones
The ruling elites in Venezuela and the United States are keen to paint Chavez as the heir to Castro, but the truth is more complex. The Chavez that emerges from the author's account is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. He is a master politician and an inspired improviser, a Bolivarian nationalist and an unashamed socialist

Print Book, English, 2008
The Bodley Head, London, 2008