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The first life of Hugo Chávez
05.11.2013
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Sabaneta, Barinas, where Chavez was raised
The more than 700 pages of Ignacio Ramonet's book are a very
interesting read, about the path of Hugo Chavez and his immense
political sensitivity. The first feeling about the book with Chavez
was that it was too early, he still had not lived long enough, and one
would assume that he would live a long time, including events of great
importance.
by Emir Sader
When Ignacio Ramonet announced that he had begun to make a book of
interviews, comparisons could not fail to be made with the excellent
book of interviews with Fidel. This summarizes the entire trajectory
of the Cuban leader, just before he withdrew from active political
life, a book which was a trip through all the major events experienced
by Fidel.
The first feeling about the book with Hugo Chavez was that "it was too
early," he still had not lived long enough, and one would assume that
he would live a long time, including events of great importance.
The illness and death of the Venezuelan leader made the concern that
it would be "too early" or that the book was made "too late" for such
a short trajectory that ended with Hugo Chavez's death. However, the
point is that this is a courageous volume of 700 pages which has
allowed only the story of his "first life" - as the title of the book
- which goes only until the first electoral victory of Hugo Chavez.
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Despite this limitation, we read the book with great interest and with
the unmistakable feeling of sadness, the untimely loss of a leader of
such stature. The interviews allow for a human portrait of Hugo
Chavez, from his early childhood, the poor boy from the interior of a
country, who sold sweets prepared by his grandmother through the
streets of his city.
A child with a predestined future - that sometimes he himself accepts,
others he denies it, saying that "history absorbed him"; he shows a
rebellious nature early on, outraged by the acts of injustice and
oppression that he could witness. Leader in the school, in baseball
games, in street groups, he was an avid reader from early on of the
great works of classical literature, as well as magazines and
almanacs, which taught him the first things about the world.
He was a boy who managed to live with relatives involved in historical
epics, in a time of great instability and turmoil in Venezuela. By
this means - in addition to the stories of his grandmother, the cinema
and the streets - he was shaped as a human being soaked by the history
of Venezuela and Latin America. There was brewing a great leader, with
the same guts of the Venezuelan people. "I 've been coming by
different routes, to this river that is history."
His military career was almost a natural way for that young rebel,
identified with the great national Venezuelan heroes, above all with
Bolivar. A young man of popular origin, descendant of Indians,
Africans and Spanish, facing one of the corrupt elites of the
continent.
The second part of the book is already part of the contemporary
history of Venezuela: the second election of Carlos Andres Perez, the
neoliberal package and popular reaction called "Caracazo" , the first
attempt at military uprising headed by Hugo Chavez, military failure
and victory, policy, prison, amnesty, a Latin American tour, the first
meeting with Fidel. The harsh campaign to convince his companions that
it was worth it at the time to choose the institutional way,
presenting his name as a presidential candidate, the campaign and
victory. Relies on phrases like " The only ones who think that
perfection is possible in politics, are the fanatics."
Then began another life, the great statesman, leader in Latin America,
which was never addressed by the book. Its more than 700 pages are
read with much interest, the path of Hugo Chavez and his immense
political sensitivity. But also with great sadness , because it
increases the sense of loss that his death left everyone - in
Venezuela, in Latin American and among the peoples of the world .
http://www.patrialatina.com.br/editorias.php?idprog=d869c99656ec60fc9de27338a87b2506&cod=12695
05.11.2013
The first life of Hugo Chávez. 51456.jpeg
Sabaneta, Barinas, where Chavez was raised
The more than 700 pages of Ignacio Ramonet's book are a very
interesting read, about the path of Hugo Chavez and his immense
political sensitivity. The first feeling about the book with Chavez
was that it was too early, he still had not lived long enough, and one
would assume that he would live a long time, including events of great
importance.
by Emir Sader
When Ignacio Ramonet announced that he had begun to make a book of
interviews, comparisons could not fail to be made with the excellent
book of interviews with Fidel. This summarizes the entire trajectory
of the Cuban leader, just before he withdrew from active political
life, a book which was a trip through all the major events experienced
by Fidel.
The first feeling about the book with Hugo Chavez was that "it was too
early," he still had not lived long enough, and one would assume that
he would live a long time, including events of great importance.
The illness and death of the Venezuelan leader made the concern that
it would be "too early" or that the book was made "too late" for such
a short trajectory that ended with Hugo Chavez's death. However, the
point is that this is a courageous volume of 700 pages which has
allowed only the story of his "first life" - as the title of the book
- which goes only until the first electoral victory of Hugo Chavez.
Print version
+ - Font Size
Send to friend
Despite this limitation, we read the book with great interest and with
the unmistakable feeling of sadness, the untimely loss of a leader of
such stature. The interviews allow for a human portrait of Hugo
Chavez, from his early childhood, the poor boy from the interior of a
country, who sold sweets prepared by his grandmother through the
streets of his city.
A child with a predestined future - that sometimes he himself accepts,
others he denies it, saying that "history absorbed him"; he shows a
rebellious nature early on, outraged by the acts of injustice and
oppression that he could witness. Leader in the school, in baseball
games, in street groups, he was an avid reader from early on of the
great works of classical literature, as well as magazines and
almanacs, which taught him the first things about the world.
He was a boy who managed to live with relatives involved in historical
epics, in a time of great instability and turmoil in Venezuela. By
this means - in addition to the stories of his grandmother, the cinema
and the streets - he was shaped as a human being soaked by the history
of Venezuela and Latin America. There was brewing a great leader, with
the same guts of the Venezuelan people. "I 've been coming by
different routes, to this river that is history."
His military career was almost a natural way for that young rebel,
identified with the great national Venezuelan heroes, above all with
Bolivar. A young man of popular origin, descendant of Indians,
Africans and Spanish, facing one of the corrupt elites of the
continent.
The second part of the book is already part of the contemporary
history of Venezuela: the second election of Carlos Andres Perez, the
neoliberal package and popular reaction called "Caracazo" , the first
attempt at military uprising headed by Hugo Chavez, military failure
and victory, policy, prison, amnesty, a Latin American tour, the first
meeting with Fidel. The harsh campaign to convince his companions that
it was worth it at the time to choose the institutional way,
presenting his name as a presidential candidate, the campaign and
victory. Relies on phrases like " The only ones who think that
perfection is possible in politics, are the fanatics."
Then began another life, the great statesman, leader in Latin America,
which was never addressed by the book. Its more than 700 pages are
read with much interest, the path of Hugo Chavez and his immense
political sensitivity. But also with great sadness , because it
increases the sense of loss that his death left everyone - in
Venezuela, in Latin American and among the peoples of the world .
http://www.patrialatina.com.br/editorias.php?idprog=d869c99656ec60fc9de27338a87b2506&cod=12695
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