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Confidante of 'tyrants' : the inside story of the American woman trusted by the US's biggest enemies / Eva Golinger.
Van Pelt Library KF373.G596 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Golinger, Eva, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chávez Frías, Hugo.
- Women lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Women lawyers.
- Relations.
- Friends and associates.
- Hispanic American journalists.
- Women journalists.
- Hispanic American lawyers.
- United States.
- Venezuela.
- Hispanic American lawyers--Biography.
- Women journalists--Biography.
- Hispanic American journalists--Biography.
- Golinger, Eva.
- Chávez Frías, Hugo--Friends and associates.
- United States--Relations--Venezuela.
- Venezuela--Relations--United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : New Internationalist, 2018.
- Contents:
- 1 Over the brink p. 11
- Gearing up for the speech
- Enter Chávez
- Trending on Twitter
- 2 From rebel to truth-teller p. 21
- Activist education
- Rebel rhythms
- Learning from the law
- 3 How I met Hugo Chávez p. 30
- Breaking the story
- At the air base
- Second chance
- Inside the presidential plane
- Live TV, pigtails and all
- 4 Before Chavez, or how I met Venezuela p. 48
- In search of my Venezuelan heritage
- Culture shock
- Happiness - and political turmoil
- Student demonstration time
- The wonders and dangers of local food
- Venezuelan time
- My mother descends
- 5 Venezuela: a love affair p. 68
- An encounter with the National Guard
- Artistic revolt - and falling in love
- A New Mexican episode
- Crushed by love
- Singing in a band
- 6 Prelude to a coup p. 85
- A landmark constitution
- The new me
- New York and 9/11
- 'No longer the only devil'
- 7 From coup to revolution p. 96
- Diplomatic celebration - then Chavez's liberation
- General strike
- 8 Cracking the code p. 105
- Baby face and bodyguards
- Venezuela's Sweetheart
- Mystery tour of Peru
- At large in Cuzco
- Chavez bares his teeth
- 9 Welcomed by Castro p. 122
- Return to Havana
- The Chavez Code
- The lap of luxury
- 10 Living the revolution p. 134
- Another private encounter
- Return to Cuba - under camouflage
- The Hotel Nacional - and meeting Fidel
- 11 Between the Devil and an angel p. 148
- Putting down roots in Caracas
- A nightmare journey to Cuba
- Fidel again
- Talk-show TV
- The 'devil speech' at the UN
- Calling me an angel
- 12 Upside-down world p. 165
- Hated but guarded
- Chávez on a high
- Back in the spotlight
- How I was scammed
- The break-in
- 13 A defeat for socialism (or the return of toilet paper) p. 181
- Ramping up public ownership
- Referendum on the constitution
- Toilet paper wins the argument
- A Christmas tragedy
- 14 From Caracas to New York to Moscow p. 194
- Returning to the UN
- New York - and Courtney Love
- Trumpian luxury in Moscow
- 15 Freeing Americans in Iran (a woman's work is never known) p. 205
- A night-time encounter
- Why the prisoners in Iran were released
- 16 Touring the 'Axis of Evil' p. 214
- Russia
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Iran
- Syria
- Libya
- 17 The unraveling of a revolution p. 252
- Unexpected pregnancy
- Chavez falls ill
- A shocking revelation
- Chavez ponders the succession
- Death of Hugo Chávez
- Things fall apart
- 18 The slippery slope p. 269.
- ISBN:
- 9781780264677
- 1780264674
- OCLC:
- 1020000310
- Publisher Number:
- 99978800900
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