Download or read book Hugo Ch‡vez The Bolivarian Revolution from Up Close written by Eirik Vold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worshiped by his poor followers, despised by his opponents and declared the number one threat to US interests in the Western Hemisphere by the Bush administration. This is the story of how Hugo Chávez, a poor boy raised in a mud hut in rural Venezuela, rose to global fame as he took on local elites and US hegemony. Also features an exclusive interview with Chávez and previously unreported WikiLeaks documents on US efforts to defeat Chávez and his political project.