My First Life: Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet - Hardcover

Hugo Chavez; Ignacio Ramonet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784783838 ISBN 13: 9781784783839

Publisher: Verso Books, 2016

Synopsis

One of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century, Hugo Chávez was a military officer who became a left-wing revolutionary. This book tells the story of his life until the moment he was elected President in 1998. His energy and charisma shine throughout the riveting and historically important story of his early years, describing how he slowly uncovered the reality of his country - hugely unequal, with the majority of its citizens living in indescribably impoverished conditions - and decided that he had to do something about it. Among other things, it is a fascinating account of his long-planned military conspiracy - the most significant in the history of Venezuela and perhaps of Latin America - that led up to his unsuccessful coup of 1992, and eventually to his popular electoral victory in 1998. His collaborator on this book is Ignacio Ramonet, the famous left-wing French journalist (and Editor for many years of Le Monde Diplomatique), who undertook a similar task with Fidel Castro, My Life.

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About the Author

Hugo Chávez was a Venezuelan politician and the President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. He was the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Ignacio Ramonet is a Spanish journalist and writer. He was the Editor-in- Chief of Le Monde Diplomatique from 1991 until March 2008, is one of the founders of the NGO Media Watch Global, of which he is currently president. He was the only authorized biographer of Fidel Castro.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784783838
• ISBN 13: 9781784783839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544