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Cowboy in Caracas: A North American's Memoir of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution
by Charles Hardy

"Read this important book, and drop the propaganda sandwich in the trash where it belongs."--Peter Coyote, actor/writer

"Charles Hardy has given us a unique perspective on the Chávista revolution as viewed from a cardboard shack on a hillside barrio in Caracas. Writing in a graceful and conversational style in a series of vignettes, Hardy conveys with genuine affection and admiration the dignity and courage of the ordinary people of Venezuela.... This book is a must read for all Americans--but a must read that you won't be able to put down."--Dave Lindorff, columnist for Counterpunch and co-author with Barbara Olshansky of The Case for Impeachment

"This book is an antidote to the poisonous US government mantra against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Ironically, "Cowboy" isn't about Chávez, but about the exciting processes he has helped initiate and about the awakening of Venezuela's poor whom the US media neglects."--Saul Landau, author of A Bush & Botox World

No president today is more controversial than Venezuela's Hugo Chávez Frias. Elected in a landslide in 1998, he promised a peaceful revolution. That peaceful dream became a nightmare when Chávez was overthrown in a coup d'état in 2002. Surprisingly, he was brought back to power by his supporters, mostly barrio dwellers, within forty-eight hours. Although Chávez continues to be dogged by controversy, he stays in power because of these supporters who see themselves as active participants in a democratic revolution.

Currently residing in Venezuela, Charles Hardy has been writing and speaking about the political and social reality of Latin America for over forty years. He has visited almost every Central and South American country, and, as a Catholic priest, lived eight years in a cardboard shack in a Venezuelan barrio.

Cowboy in Caracas by Charles Hardy | Original Paperback | Curbstone
ISBN: 978-1-931896-37-5 | 176 pages | $15.00

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