The political experiment that began in 1998 with Hugo Chávez's electoral victory in Venezuela marked a leftward shift across Latin America.

This book unfolds the political journey of the controversial leader of the Bolivarian revolution, Hugo Chávez, whose death in 2013 left the so-called revolutionary left in Latin America "orphaned."

It also includes the interview he gave to journalist Iason Pipinou in Caracas in 2010, where he discusses the economic crisis in Greece and his desire to visit our country.

The actions of armed movements, Liberation Theology, the death flights used by dictators to eliminate dissenters, the distinct political governance model known as populism, the Peruvian revolution of Juan Velasco Alvarado, and the continuers of Hugo Chávez's policies on the continent capture the magical realism of recent political history in Latin America.