Chavez

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152014377
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Hope written by Kathleen Krull and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a shy boy who grew up to be one of America's greatest civilrights leaders is told in this picture book biography. Full color.

Author : Cristina Marcano
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588366502
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo Chavez written by Cristina Marcano and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, and antagonize America. Born in a small town on the Venezuelan plains, Chávez found his interests radically altered when he entered the military academy in Caracas. There, as Hugo Chávez reveals in dramatic detail, he was drawn to leftist politics and a new sense of himself as predestined to change the fortunes of his country and Latin America as a whole. Portrayed as never before is the double life Chávez soon began to lead: by day he was a family man and a military officer, but by night he secretly recruited insurgents for a violent overthrow of the government. His efforts would climax in an attempted coup against President Carlos Andrés Pérez, an action that ended in a spectacular failure but gave Chávez his first irresistible taste of celebrity and laid the groundwork for his ascension to the presidency eight years later. Here is the truth about Chávez’s revolutionary “Bolivarian” government, which stresses economic reforms meant to discourage corruption and empower the poor–while the leader spends seven thousand dollars a day on himself and cozies up to Arab oil elites. Venezuelan journalists Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka explore the often crude and comical public figure who condemns George W. Bush in the most fiery language but at the same time hires lobbyists to improve his country’s image in the West. The authors examine not only Chávez’s political career but also his personal life–including his first marriage, which was marked by a long affair and the birth of a troubled son, and his second marriage, which produced a daughter toward whom Chávez’s favoritism has caused private tension and public talk. This seminal biography is filled with exclusive excerpts from Chávez’s own diary and draws on new research and interviews with such insightful subjects as Herma Marksman, the professor who was his mistress for nine years. Hugo Chávez is an essential work about a man whose power, peculiarities, and passion for the global spotlight only continue to grow.

Author : Rory Carroll
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143124889
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comandante written by Rory Carroll and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the leadership of Venezuela's elected president, Hugo Chávez, and his efforts to transform his country and paints a picture of his life based on interviews with ministers, aides, courtiers, and everyday citizens.

Author : Geo Maher
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822354527
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Created Chávez written by Geo Maher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.

Author : Mike Gonzalez
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783710294
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo Chávez written by Mike Gonzalez and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2014 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography published after Chavez's death, tracing his life from a poor rural family to the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas.

Author : Hugo Chávez Frías
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution written by Hugo Chávez Frías and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work brings together, in an extended dialogue, the ongoing transformation of Venezuelan society and its growing role in global and regional politics. In the course of this discussion, Chavez sets out his politics in his own words, enabling the reader to grasp the rationale behind them and the charisma of the man.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 9780823423835
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez written by David A. Adler and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait of the personal life and career as a labor leader of Cesar Chavez, who helped to organize the mostly Mexican American migrant farm workers and led the struggle for social justice of the United Farm Workers.

Author : Ricardo Hausmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271064641
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venezuela Before Chávez written by Ricardo Hausmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela’s economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19 percent and oil GDP by an astonishing 65 percent. What accounts for this drastic turnabout? The editors of Venezuela Before Chávez, who each played a policymaking role in the country’s economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to examine systematically the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy’s collapse, from the cost of labor regulation and the development of financial markets to the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Omar Bello, Adriana Bermúdez, Matías Braun, Javier Corrales, Jonathan Di John, Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, Samuel Freije, Dan Levy, Robert MacCulloch, Osmel Manzano, Francisco Monaldi, María Antonia Moreno, Daniel Ortega, Michael Penfold, José Pineda, Lant Pritchett, Cameron A. Shelton, and Dean Yang.

Author : Richard Griswold del Castillo
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129570
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cesar Chavez written by Richard Griswold del Castillo and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the growth and development of the farm labor organizer

Author : Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101995602
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was Cesar Chavez? written by Dana Meachen Rau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist. When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. Along with Dolores Huerta, he cofounded the National Farmworkers Association. His dedication to his work earned him numerous friends and supporters, including Robert Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.