{"product_id":"the-chavez-code-cracking-us-intervention-in-venezuela-9781566566476","title":"The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps no world leader is better placed to challenge the global authority of the United States than Hugo Chavez  the populist leader of Venezuela. As the head of one of the worlds largest oil-producing countries  Chavez has been instrumental in raising world oil prices  undermining the control and profits of the multinational oil companies  and introducing innovative plans to use the wealth from this natural resource to help the impoverished-rather than the already powerful-in his own country and around the world. As the popularly elected president of one of South Americas largest democracies  his strong resistance to the Bush administrations Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) has severely set back  if not derailed entirely  the USs long-held hemispheric agenda. When in 2005 Bush ally and Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson called for Chavezs assassination (\"Its a whole lot cheaper than starting a war\")  public outcry forced some questions: Was that  in fact  a CIA goal? Did the US have plans to invade Venezuela (as Chavez alluded to receiving intelligence about on Nightline in September 2005)? And exactly what was the extent of US knowledge of or involvement in the April 2002 coup against Chavez? (He was back in power within two days  after 250 000 took to the streets in Venezuela to protest.) Venezuelan-American attorney Eva Golinger and journalist Jeremy Bigwood have used the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain government documents about US intervention in Venezuela. The Chavez Code contains this irrefutable evidence that  at the very least  the US knew about the plot to overthrow Chavez before it happened. The history of US interventions across Latin America  the suspicious blacked-out lines and pages  and the ongoing investigation suggest an even darker tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931718647861,"sku":"ByrdShop_1566566479","price":65.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781566566476.jpg?v=1794217090","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-chavez-code-cracking-us-intervention-in-venezuela-9781566566476","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}