The Chavez code : cracking U.S. intervention in Venezuela / by Eva Golinger ; foreword by Saul Landau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golinger, Eva.

Standardized Title:

Código Chávez. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--Venezuela.

United States.

Venezuela--Foreign relations--United States.

Venezuela.

Chávez Frías, Hugo.

Venezuela--Politics and government--1999-.

Politics and government.

Venezuela--History--Attempted coup, 2002.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2006.

Summary:

When in 2005 the Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson called for Hugo Chavez's assassination, public outcry forced some questions: Was that a CIA goal? Did the US have plans to invade Venezuela? And exactly what was the extent of US involvement in the April 2002 coup against Chavez?

In The Chavez Code, Venezuelan-American attorney Eva Golinger uses documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act to lay out irrefutable evidence that the US knew about the plot to overthrow Chavez before it happened. The extent of US funding of opposition movements in Venezuela, the history of US interventions across Latin America, the suspicious blacked-out lines and pages of these documents, and the ongoing investigation suggest even deeper US involvement.

For any US citizen who wonders what it means to "fund democracy" abroad, this book is essential reading.

Contents:

Nicaragua and Chile : the coup cookbook

A president denied a U.S. visa

From Vargas to pre-coup premonitions

IRI gives birth to primero justicia

Decoding Venezuela

A coup by any other name

An office for a transitional government

Paro petrolero : an oil industry sabotage

Electoral intervention : the U.S.'s last hope

Up the sleeve strategies and threats.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-[210]) and index.

ISBN:

1566566479

OCLC:

62697081

Publisher Number:

9781566566476