Автор:Rory Carroll Год: 2013 Издание: Страниц: 320 ISBN: 9781594204579 In the aftermath of Hugo Chavez's death, the inside story of his life, his Venezuela, and his legacy. Hugo Chavez was a phenomenon. He has been compared to Napol?on, Nasser, Peran, and Castro, but the truth is there has never been a leader like him. He was democratically elected, reigned like a monarch from a digital throne, and provoked adoration and revulsion in equal measure. Future historians will study his rule for what it says about the early twenty-first century. How did a charismatic autocrat seduce not just a nation but a significant part of world opinion? How did he make people laugh and weep and applaud, as if on command? And how did he continue to stay in power despite the crumbling of Venezuela? When he first came to power in 1999, Chavez promised a democratic revolution to transform his country. In Venezuela and elsewhere, he became a symbol of hope and freedom for his people. Yet in his thirteen years as president, Chavez seized control of the...