ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2008
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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Hugo!: The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution:

Paperback – 1 May 2008
Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Bodley Head (1 May 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847920055
ISBN-13: 978-1847920058 Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 3.2 x 23.4 cm


`Chavez`s rise has a made-for-Hollywood quality ... Jones provides a superb description of the economic inequities that helped create the conditions for a populist such as Chavez to come to power... Where [he] truly excels is in his observations of Venezuelan society and the outsized role oil has played in molding the national character.’ WASHINGTON POST
`Jones’s book is thoughtful, comprehensive...,the best in the bunch.’
BOSTON GLOBE

In Hugo! Bart Jones tells the story of Chavez`s impoverished childhood, his military career and the decade of clandestine political activity that ended in a failed attempt to seize power in 1992. He describes the election campaign against a former Miss Universe that finally won Chavez the Presidency and the dramatic reversals of fortune that have marked it the struggle to reform the Venezuelan economy, the coup attempt of 2002 in which he was kidnapped and faced summary execution, and the oil industry strike that followed. The full stories of many of these episodes have never been told before - in English or Spanish.

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 and more interesting. The Chavez that emerges from Jones’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 His policies have brought him into conflict with the IMF and the World Bank, the major oil companies and the Bush White House. They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina. When in December 2006 he declared at the UN that `the devil came here yesterday... the President of the United States’, it was clear that, right or wrong, one man was taking on the might of the most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar.

Bart Jones lived and worked in Venezuela for eight years. He knows the country intimately and was an eyewitness to Chavez’s rise to power. He now works for Newsday. Hugo! is his first book.


1) 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 and more interesting.

2) The Chávez that emerges from Jones` 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. His policies have brought him into conflict with the IMF and World Bank, major oil companies and the USA.

3) They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina.

4) When in December 2006 he declared at the UN that `the devil came here yesterday ... the President of the United States`, it was clear that, right or wrong, one man was taking on the might of most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simón Bolívar.


Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012.

Born into a middle class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer and, after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system based on the Puntofijo Pact, founded the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s. Chávez led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful coup d`état against the Democratic Action government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1992, for which he was imprisoned. Pardoned from prison after two years, he founded a political party known as the Fifth Republic Movement and was elected president of Venezuela in 1998 with 56.2% of the vote. He was re-elected in 2000 with 59.8% of the vote and again in 2006 with 62.8% of the vote. After winning his fourth term as president in the October 2012 presidential election with a decrease to 55.1% of the vote, he was to be sworn in on 10 January 2013. However, the inauguration was postponed due to his cancer treatment, and he died in Caracas on 5 March 2013 at the age of 58.

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