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In the Shadow of the Liberator: The Impact of Hugo Chavez on Venezuela and Latin America (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Verso Books (24 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1859847757
  • ISBN-13: 978-1859847756
  • Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 14.3 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 833,826 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This book shows its author back on top form as a supreme interpreter of Latin America." - The Independent "A colourful and readable account of Chavez's background and beliefs." - Financial Times "Little is known in detail of Chavez's life, career, and ideas. This study ... begins to fill the gaps." - Multicultural Review "Gott is always and interesting, well-informed, and engaging writer. Washington would be wise to pay attention to this account, since Chavez's radical nationalism ... is presumably raising eyebrows in Foggy Bottom and Langley." - Foreign Affairs "Chavez, as Richard Gott's readable profile makes clear, is no ordinary caudillo." - Time Higher Education Supplement "This timely book will be eagerly devoured by all those who wish to understand Latin America's new radicalism." - New Statesman

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In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the county's controversial president in historical perspective. Examining Chavez's plans and programmes and the support these attract, Gott argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A very readable and positive view of the Chavez government, 9 Oct 2000
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I am in no way a supporter of Chavez. This was after all a man who caused the ceath of several innocent civillians during the 92 coup attempt. he is also a primarily a soldier and again i have serious reservations about the military taking political control. However, Gott's book was a very refreshing change to the middle class paranoia that abounds around this government. Gott is obviously sympathetic to Chavez and believes him to be a man of integrity. I sincerely hope this to be true. unfortunately Gott does not elaborate on the question marks he himself raises. He mentions people who once supported Chavez but then turned against him without providing the reader sufficient information on which to base an opinion. Chavez's agricultural reforms are unquestioned. Chavez has used the newly homeless to populate the interior, I would have liked to have read intitial feedback from these people. It is by seeing the good and the bad of a political figure that one is able to get a relatively fair picture. This book is very subjective which makes me automatically wary. I appreciate the book was only recently published and so could not give any great details about the role of the military during the December disaster. However, having spent Christmas in Venezuela I know there were many criticisms levelled against the army ranging from incompetence, degenerating into taking part in the looting and forming part of the vigilantiism that reigned in Edo Vargas. I would have liked Gott to address these issues in the book. The leader of the DISIP lost his job because of the shooting of looters, did it stop there? Or should Chavez be justifying the actions of the military? I know this may sound contradictory but it was a very readable book and good to hear somebody defending Chavez, who after all if he truly intends to put into practice his policies will have been the only politician in the last thirty years to have made a positive contribution to the lives of the majority of Venezuelans. It made a refreshing change from the whining of the business interests and magazines such as The Economist.
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