THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN 2006 BY CRISTINA MARCANO AND ALBERTO BARRERA TYSZKA, THIS IS A BIOGRAPHY OF HUGO CHÁVEZ A PRESIDENT TURNED DICTATOR.
THIS IS AN UNBIASED BIOGRAPHY VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE APOLOGETIC PICTURE PRESENTED BY THE LOONY LEFT.
IT STARTED IN JULY 28,1954 WHEN HUGO CHÁVEZ WAS BORN IN THE TOWN OF SABANETA LOCATED IN BARINAS STATES,
THE VENEZUELAN PLAINS ( LLANOS),HE
WAS UPBROUGHT BY HIS GRANDMOTHER
ROSA CHÁVEZ.
IN HIS ADOLESCENSE HE MOVED TO THE CITY OF BARINAS TO STUDY HIGH SCHOOL, HE
STARTED TO READ LEFTIST BOOKS GIVEN BY ESTEBAN RUIZ GUEVARA A COMMUNIST MILITANT, IN 1971 HE MOVED TO CARACAS
BECAUSE HE ENTERED THE ARMY,HE VISITED
PERÚ AND BECAME FASCINATED WITH THE LEFTIST PRESIDENT JUAN VELASCO ALVARADO.
IN 1977 HE DECIDED TO BREAK WITH THE SYSTEM AND DURING THE EIGHTIES HE STARTED TO CONSPIRE WITH OTHER DISSIDENT OFFICERS AND FAR LEFT CIVILIANS, THIS WAS UNBEKNOWNST TO THE VENEZUELANS, HE WAS IN THE SHADOWS.
THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM LOOKED STRONG AND SOLID BUT THIS ILLUSION CAME TO
AN END ON FEBRUARY 4,1992 WHEN CHÁVEZ
AND OTHER OFFICERS TRIED TO OVERTHROW PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRÉS PÉREZ, THE COUP FAILED BUT HUGO CHÁVEZ JUMPED
FROM ANONYMITY TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE VENEZUELAN POLITICS, TWO YEARS
LATER HE WAS FREED BY PRESIDENT RAFÁEL CALDERA,A VERY BIG MISTAKE AS IT TURNED TO BE OUT, SHORTLY AFTERWARDS HE WENT
TO CUBA AND HIGHLY PRAISED THE DICTATOR FIDEL CASTRO, SHOWING HIS
TRUE COLORS ; IN THE TWO FOLLOWING YEARS HE SANK INTO ANONYMITY, TO BE
RESCUED BY LUIS MIQUELENA A VETERAN COMMUNIST MILITANT,HE PREPARED HIM
FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN 1998.
AT THAT TIME THE VENEZUELAN BIPARTISAN SYSTEM WAS ALREADY EXHAUSTED AND ROTTEN TO THE CORE, IN FACT RAFÁEL CALDERA WON THE 1993 ELECTION WITH THE SUPPORT OF A MOTLEY OF POLITICAL PARTIES ,AS A RESULT MOST OF THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE, NOT ONLY THE CHAVISTAS,WANTED A CHANGE.
ANOTHER FACTOR WAS THE NEO LIBERAL
ECONOMIC POLICIES THAT WERE LAUNCHED
IN LATIN AMERICA IN THE NINETIES,WITH
THEIR UNBRIDLED CAPITALISM, SHOCK THERAPIES AND PRIVATIZACION RUSH, IT
BROUGHT FINANCIAL RUIN AND SOCIAL DISRUPTION, THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND
POOR BECAME MUCH WIDER,IN THE END
THIS POLICIES PAVED THE WAY FOR THE LEFT,
OF COURSE CHÁVEZ BECAME THE FIRST BENEFICIARY ,AS A RESULT HE WAS ELECTED
PRESIDENT IN 1998 BY 57 PERCENT OF THE
VOTE.
ONCE HE TOOK POWER HE DID NOT WASTE
TIME TO DISMANTLE THE WHOLE SYSTEM,
A NEW CONSTITUTION WAS APPROVED IN
1999 AND THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WAS
CREATED IN LIEU OF THE BICAMERAL SYSTEM.
FROM DAY ONE HE ALIGNED VENEZUELA WITH FIDEL CASTRO AND THE LATIN AMERICA
RADICAL LEFT.
HUGO CHÁVEZ WAS A DEMAGOGUE AND
OVERALL A RABBLE ROUSER, HIS SPEECHES
WERE FULL OF HATRED AND INTOLERANCE,
BUT THIS WAS EXPECTED HE HAS ALWAYS
BEEN A SOCIAL RESENTFUL WITH A CHIP
ON THE SHOULDER, HE CREATED A DIVISION
IN THE SOCIETY THAT EXTENDED TO MEMBERS OF INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES AS NO
OTHER VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HAS DONE,
IN A TYPICAL LEFTIST WAY HE CREATED THE
CLASS WAR, THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT HOSTILITIES NEVER EXISTED BEFORE, BUT
WITH HIM CLASS HATRED BECAME PART OF
THE STATE POLICY.
THE AUTHORS DELVED INTO THE ILL ATTEMPTED COUP OF APRIL 11, 2002
HEADED BY PEDRO CARMONA WHO WAS
HEAD OF FEDECAMARAS( PRIVATE ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION),THE REINSTATEMENT OF CHÁVEZ THREE DAYS
LATER BY THE ARMY,INCLUDING GENERAL
RAUL BADUEL WHO BECAME A FOE FIVE
YEARS LATER, THEN THE PURGE IN PDVSA
( PETRÓLEOS DE VENEZUELA), THE REVOCATORY REFERENDUM OF 2004 AND
THE INFAMOUS TASCÓN LIST THAT RUINED
AND DISGRACED THOUSANDS OF VENEZUELANS.
THE AUTHORS ALSO DELVED INTO THE PERSONAL LIFE OF CHÁVEZ,HIS TWO WIVES (NANCY COLMENARES AND MARISABEL RODRIGUEZ), HIS LOVER (HERMA MARKSMAN)
AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY.
UNFORTUNATELY FOR VENEZUELA CHÁVEZ HAD THE GOOD LUCK THAT THE PRICE OF OIL
SKYROCKETED DURING MOST PART OF HIS REGIME, THIS ALLOWED HIM TO CONSOLIDATE HIS POWER, ALSO THE FACT
THAT HE COINCIDED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DESPICABLE GEORGE W BUSH, WHO WITH GOOD REASONS WAS VERY UNPOPULAR IN THE
WHOLE WORLD, CHÁVEZ CAPITALIZED ON
THAT, WITH HIS ANTI BUSH DISCOURSE.
AS THE AUTHORS POINTED OUT CHÁVEZ
WAS A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS, WHILE
HE PREACHED AUSTERITY AND LOVE FOR THE
POOR,HE AND HIS ACOLYTES SPENT THE MONEY LAVISHLY, HE TRAVELED TO THE WHOLE WORLD AS NEVER OTHER VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HAS TRAVELED BEFORE HIM, ALSO THEY BOUGHT LUXURY
CARS AND CLOTHES, HE PROMISED TO END
CORRUPTION,BUT HIS GOVERNMENT (AND
MADURO LATER IN),PLUNDERED THE COUNTRY EXPONENTIALLY, IN SPITE OF
ALL THE GREAT QUANTITY OF INCOME THAT
HIS ADMINISTRATION RECEIVED,THE COUNTRY BECAME A TOTAL FINANCIAL
RUIN, THE CHAVISTAS SQUANDERED THE
MONEY AND ENRICHED THEMSELVES.
AS FOR THE POVERTY ,VENEZUELA NOT ONLY
BECAME ON OF THE POOREST COUNTRIES
IN LATIN AMERICA BUT ALSO THE MIDDLE AND UPPER MIDDLE CLASS BECAME IMPOVERISHED,THE SO CALLED SOCIAL
PROJECTS WERE NOTHING MORE THAN
A SCHEME OF CORRUPTION AND THE
EMBEZZLEMENT OF FUNDS.
AS FOR THE MISIONES,THAT WAS AN INSTRUMENT OF CASTROITE PENETRATION,
IN FACT WHILE CHÁVEZ TALKED ABOUT AMERICAN INTERFERENCE HE SOLD VENEZUELA TO CASTRO'S CUBA.
THE BOOK FINISHED AT THE END OF 2006
BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AGAINST ROSALES, AS EXPECTED( BECAUSE
ALL THE INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING THE
NATIONAL ELECTORAL COUNCIL WAS AND
ARE NOWADAYS IN CHAVISTAS HANDS) HE WON, FIVE MONTHS LATER IN MAY 2007,
RCTV ( RADIO CARACAS TELEVISION) WAS
CLOSED AND LATER ON HE TRIED TO INTRODUCE A REFERENDUM TO AMEND
THE CONSTITUTION TO PERPETUATE HIMSELF
IN POWER.
HE PLANNED TO STAY IN POWER UP TO THE
YEAR 2030, BUT IT WOULD NOT BE, ON MARCH 5,2013 HE PASSED AWAY ; AFTER THAT
NICOLAS MADURO BECAME PRESIDENT UP TO
THE PRESENT, THE COUNTRY KEEP
GOING DOWNWARD, MANY AWFUL THINGS
HAVE HAPPENED, BUT THIS IS FOR ANOTHER
STORY.
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