A review by geneluigi
Comandante: Myth and Reality in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela by Rory Carroll

5.0

I think this is, as someone said here: well-researched and fairly unbiased. I was very pleased to read a piece on venezuelan politics that didn't fall into the binary: Chávez dictator, opposition salvation. Venezuela's history is very nuanced and complex, and that's what this book gives you. Chávez was human and fallible, but also ruthless in the ways he wanted to achieve a so-called revolution. Very far away from the god-like image the naive leftists wants to picture. Similarly, the opposition, IMO is very disjointed (also decades of repression makes it very hard to organize) and lacks what Chávez had to a fault, a constructive vision of a future.