Latin American Revolutionaries: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez

ISBN: 9781494298456
$6.99
*Includes a list of Chavez's most colorful and controversial quotes.
*Includes pictures of Chavez and important people, places, and events in his life.
*Includes a Table of Contents.

“Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.” - Hugo Chávez, Address to the United Nations, September 20, 2006.

The above quote is quintessentially Chávez – controversial, shocking, and designed to cause a stir. He shared his words with the entire United Nations General Assembly at a time when the United States was embroiled in two failing war efforts and its banks were inching ever closer towards the economic crisis of 2008. Yet Chávez shared his beliefs fearlessly, confident enough with his presidency and his role on the world’s stage to criticize the US president in a way that had never been done before at the UN.

Understandably, Chávez is one of the most divisive and controversial political figures in Latin American history. He has been in power since 1999 and is South America’s longest serving head of state. The leader of the movement towards Twenty-first Century Socialism, Chávez has sought to bring socialist reform to Venezuela through what he calls the Bolivarian Revolution. His goal has been to shift power from the nation’s traditional oligarchy to the neglected poor.
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