Bush Versus Chávez: Washington's War on Venezuela

by Eva Golinger

Book Overview

President Hugo Ch vez openly defies the ruling class in the United States, daring to advance universal access to health care and education, to remove itself from the economic orbit dominated by the United States, to diversify its production to meet human needs and promote human development, and to forge an economic coalition between Latin American countries.
But as Bush Versus Ch vez reveals, Venezuela's revolutionary process has drawn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158367165X
• ISBN13: 9781583671658
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Review from Branddenotes.blogspot.com

This book marshals indisputable evidence that the U.S. government and its supporters among the Venezuelan elite have been trying to overthrow Hugo Chavez, using all the tricks in the U.S. playbook covering 50 years of covert action experience in Latin America. Possibly as a result of its murderous bumbling in Iraq, and the distraction and diversion of resources it has caused, the U.S. government has so far failed. Then again, it could also be because Latin Americans have become better prepared to deal with the U.S. government's illegal, undemocratic and imperialist ways...

For anyone who wants a look into the shadier actions of the Bush Administration.

Is the United States funding Counter-revolutionary groups in Venezuela? Yes, says "Bush vs Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela". Claiming that American taxpayer dollars are funding, albeit indirectly, organizations that fund the counter-revolutionary groups of Venezuela, in hopes for gaining favor with Latin America's most oil rich nation. More frightening, there is a build up of US troops in the Caribbean that are ready to threaten the Venezuelan people and their governments. "Bush vs Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela" is highly recommended for community library social issues collections and for anyone who wants a look into the shadier actions of the Bush Administration.

Courageous detective work

The author, a lawyer and a dual citizen of Venezuela and the United States, has literally risked her life to publish this book. She has received numerous death threats and plenty of insults. A sequel to her previous bestseller, "The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela", it examines secret US documents that reveal how hard the Bush administration is trying to overthrow the democratically-elected Venezuelan government. "Follow the money trail" is good advice for any investigative journalist, and Golinger does just that. By studying thousands of US government documents obtained through exhaustive requests of every relevant department through the Freedom of Information Act, she is revealing proof of manipulation and covert operations to overthrow Chávez. Historians generally do this work decades after major upheavals in Latin America. Golinger is doing this research now, in "real-time", to break the secrecy of Bush's imperial designs and to prevent a coup in the making.