For more video material, google the excellent documentary on the 2002 coup attempt, 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.'

See also Greg Palast's excellent DVD 'The Assassination of Hugo Chavez' which features an interview with Golinger.

This is the book by Noam Chomsky that Chavez held up at the lectern during his speech at the United Nations. The book quickly became an international best-seller.

Perkins, a former 'economic hit man' himself, has said that there are U.S. special forces already skulking around Colombia and Venezuela. He feels there will be various efforts to end the movement toward socialism.

Bolivar, South America's 'George Washington,' is an influential figure of the Chavez administration.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, of Colombia, is a magnificent writer.

The Chavez administration has rebuffed efforts by the U.S. to extend its drug war and fumigation campaigns into Venezuela. So, birds and other animals of the jungles will not be killed by the toxic herbicides of Monsanto that are being dumped on other countries of South America.

The chaos caused by the war on (non-corporate) drugs in Colombia was one of the reasons why Venezuela recently purchased 100,000 new AK-47s. They're concerned about Colombia's conflict spilling into their own country.

Tragically, this tribe's way of being in the world has been pretty much exterminated. Chavez, part indigenous himself, is showing some respect to the remaining indigenous people. For more information on the indigenous issues, I'd highly recommend the magazine 'Cultural Survival.'