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Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.
Palgrave Macmillan
August 2007
On Sale: August 7, 2007
268 pages
ISBN: 1403984093
EAN: 9781403984098
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Audacious, provocative, and bombastic, few world politicians
are as colorful as Hugo Chávez, now making international
news for his plans to nationalize U.S. owned businesses and
his bold opposition to Washington's economic and trade
policies. As Venezuela gains importance as the fifth
largest oil exporter in the world, this firebrand leader is
quickly moving to the public spotlight by uniting much of
South America against the Bush administration and wielding
oil as a "geopolitical weapon." To create this rich and
objective portrait, Nikolas Kozloff--one of the few American
journalists who has spent years in the Andean region--has
profiled Chávez's top advisors, leaders of his movement,
and other key figures in both Venezuela and the U.S. The
result is a timely, exhaustive analysis of Chávez as a
political leader, and a nuanced examination of the president
moving to the center of the global stage. Includes a new
afterword by the author, with insights into Chávez's
reelection in relation to wider hemispheric politics.
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