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The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela by [Eva Golinger]

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Perhaps no world leader is better placed to challenge the global authority of the United States than Hugo Chavez, the populist leader of Venezuela. As the head of one of the world's largest oil-producing countries, Chavez has been instrumental in raising world oil prices, undermining the control and profits of the multinational oil companies, and introducing innovative plans to use the wealth from this natural resource to help the impoverished-rather than the already powerful-in his own country and around the world. As the popularly elected president of one of South America's largest democracies, his strong resistance to the Bush administration's Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) has severely set back, if not derailed entirely, the US's long-held hemispheric agenda.

When in 2005 Bush ally and Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson called for Chavez's assassination ("It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war"), public outcry forced some questions: Was that, in fact, a CIA goal? Did the US have plans to invade Venezuela (as Chavez alluded to receiving intelligence about on Nightline in September 2005)? And exactly what was the extent of US knowledge of or involvement in the April 2002 coup against Chavez? (He was back in power within two days, after 250,000 took to the streets in Venezuela to protest.)

Venezuelan-American attorney Eva Golinger has used the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain government documents about US intervention in Venezuela. The Chavez Code contains this irrefutable evidence that, at the very least, the US knew about the plot to overthrow Chavez before it happened. The history of US interventions across Latin America, the suspicious blacked-out lines and pages, and the ongoing investigation suggest an even darker tale.

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Well written, with the solid evidence, this the political survival guide to the land of the next oil war. --Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Eva Golinger was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the City University of New York Law School. Her investigation into US involvement in the coup against Chavez has been covered by major media throughout the US and in Venezuela. She divides her time between New York and Caracas. The Chavez Code is her first book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00359FEMM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Olive Branch Press (May 30, 2006)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 30, 2006
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 464 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 137 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #2,377,375 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #70 in History of Venezuela
- #206 in Venezuelan History
- #1,110 in Globalization (Kindle Store)

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Tamara

The side you don't hear

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2013

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Pretty much everything you hear in the news has been slanted toward: U.S. = good, Hugo Chavez = bad. This historical look at a great leader gives you a different perspective. A perspective that makes you realize that the U.S. is really only interested in Venezuela because of it's vast oil reserves. Hugo Chavez was able to be elected democratically many times by his own people, but used a socialist economic model to bring the devastated lower class a lifestyle they could only dream of...education, health care, and a way to make a decent living. The U.S. hated Chavez because he would not give up his iron grasp on his country's resources for their own benefit. We can only hope that Venezuela will fare as well in the future. It will depend on continued resistance to the mega-powers of U.S. corporate and government intrusion on their rights to govern their own country and control their own future and hopefully, in alliance with the other South American countries. I highly recommend this book for an insight into the real world of life in Venezuela.

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John Parsons

The Chavez Code

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2010

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Good reading and also a good introduction to what has been happening south of the border for a long time. The US is not what virtually all think it is and the writer does a good job of bringing this to the fore as it relates to Venezuela. Highly recommended for those who do not wish to always remain an ostrich as well as researchers of US South/Central American policies (as well as others). I gave it a 4 instead of 5 only because it would not likely engage a large audience.

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Sebastián

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2011

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This book is for those you really want to know what is going on in the world, specially in South America.
They say that we are ruled by dictators, that's not right, dictators were those that old North America governments put into our countries 30 - 40 years ago.
This book shows how the dirty hands of the US are deep involved trying to stop the democratic process that are occurring in South America, in this case, how they try to overthrown democratic elected president Hugo Chávez Frias.
The people of Venezuela support president Chávez, they know that he is doing the right thing to benefit the whole country.

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Linda R. Weltner

Trustworthy information

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2007

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If you've ever doubted that the US played a part in the Venezuelan coup against Chavez, or suspected that the charges against the US were trumped up by the left, read this and weep. The Freedom of Information Act has released documents that cannot lie, that reveal the extent to which we were complicit once again in trying to overthrow a democratically elected government. This is a fabulous book, and the author has paid a high price for speaking truth to power. You can read this with complete confidence that in these pages is at least a part of the truth.

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Herman

Love/Hate

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2014

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Love hate relationship with this book by Golinger. I believe it very convincingly shows the meddling in Venezuelan affairs and the lack of transparency in our news. I always Hate to find things are not as they are purported to be by the media.

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Robert Blake

A Well-Researched Document, A Gripping History

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2007

"The Chavez Code" is the most important book for Americans to read when wanting to know about Venezuela's revolution and the Bush regime's intense efforts to stop it. Eva Golinger here chronicles the impressive rise of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution and the amazing failed coup that was pulled off in 2002. Golinger educates the reader with great information and interesting insights, revealing here how Chavez has been dismissed by Washington since first enterting office in 1998, we find out that even in his first days as President the Clinton White House was pressuring him not to visit Cuba before hitting Washington because it would "look bad" (Chavez defied the bullying and still went to Havana first). But the most important and gripping chapters deal with the obvious American intervention taking place in Venezuela, why? Because Chavez has brought a socialist system to the country where the nation's oil wealth is not controlled by a small, white minority. This has of course ticked off the country's rich oligarchy and U.S. corporations which are scared stiff of nationalizations. Golinger provides damning, documented evidence of U.S. involvement and it's knowledge that a coup was in the works. In impressive detail she shows us how much of Venezuela's media has been manipulated to stir chaos and violence through obviously CIA-funded propaganda (think of Fox News times ten). The privately-owned networks have been used to spread false information and were used especially during the coup to shut the public from what was really happening. As Golinger informs us, these tactics are not new and were most famously used by the CIA in Chile during the elected, socialist government of Salvador Allende, who was overthrown by the cruel dictator Augusto Pinochet in a U.S.-backed coup. In "The Chavez Code" we learn the disturbing, documented lengths to which the fascists in Venezuela will go to try and starve their country in order to stir chaos, in on case one of the nation's richest food company barons ordered his workers to dump milk into rivers in order to help spark a shortage. During the coup the frightening attitudes of the coup leaders were displayed when the installed puppet president disassembled congress, shredded the constitution and said everything was fine. When the coup failed due to public outcry, Chavez was brought back by the people, and of course the private TV stations never covered it, they ran cartoons instead. "The Chavez Code" shows us that the age-old tactics of fascism are not dead at all but very well alive and supported by our government. It is a chronicle of a nation striving to better itself and find new means to change society, but the battle against tyranny is hard and here Golinger does a great service to the cause of spreading the truth, because in this day and age, the truth is the most important tool we have.

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