John Sweeney
Hello, Mr President
Comandante: Inside the Revolutionary Court of Hugo Chávez
By Rory Carroll
Canongate Books 363pp £20 order from our bookshop
Tyranny is one of the most successful political forms the world has ever seen, and it continually mutates to prey upon the host, humanity. Hugo Chávez, now stricken with cancer, has bequeathed a great curse upon Venezuela: a murder rate worse than Iraq’s, a broken society, a superheating economy and tons of Kalashnikovs in the barrios. It’s pretty dire given the wealth of oil gold Chávez has squandered.
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