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By Ignacio Ramonet

Pocos personajes de l. a. historia reciente han tenido el impacto de Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954-2013). Presidente de Venezuela desde 1999 hasta 2013, su mensaje de las realizaciones de l. a. Revolución Bolivariana inició un movimiento en América Latina que abrió el camino para dirigentes nuevos, de origen sindical, militante social, militar o hasta guerrillero: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva y Dilma Rousseff en Brasil, Evo Morales en Bolivia, Rafael Correa en Ecuador, Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández en Argentina, Tabaré Vázquez y José "Pepe" Mujica en Uruguay, y tantos otros. En este revelador libro, fruto de cinco años de trabajo y más de doscientas horas de conversaciones con Chávez, Ignacio Ramonet logra retratar al dirigente venezolano a través de sus propias palabras.
¿Quién period Chávez antes de convertirse en una personalidad pública universalmente conocida? ¿Cómo fue su infancia? ¿Cómo se formó? ¿Cuándo se inició en l. a. política? ¿Cuáles fueron sus lecturas? ¿Qué influencias recibió? ¿Cuál period su visión geopolítica? ¿Qué corriente ideológica reclamaba? Estas memorias dialogadas, centradas en los angeles primera etapa de los angeles vida del presidente venezolano, clave y explicación de su posterior trayectoria, son una obra de historia insoslayable para quien quiera entender el arranque del siglo-- en América Latina y el mundo.

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21. Useful essays in G. W. , Rediscovering Hellenism: The Hellenic Inheritance and the English Imagination (1989); for new ideology in Greece, E. Bastéa, The Creation of Modern Athens, Planning the Myth (2000). 22. A recent study investigates these issues thoroughly: Donald Reid, Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (2002); for a more general discussion of cultural property and ethical issues, see Colin Renfrew, Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology (2000).

19. -M. , Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 (1994), to be read with a review by Brian A. Curran, Art Bulletin 78 (1996): 739–44; and by J. S. Curl, Egyptomania: The Egyptian Revival: A Recurring Theme in the History of Taste (1994). 20. C. -M. Humbert et al. (1994): 227–35; also illustrated is a Sèvres tea service taken by Napoleon to Saint Helena (240–241). The large numbers of dinner services and dining paraphernalia from many countries, monarchs, and groups on exhibit in Apsley House in London shows that this was to be a typical offering to the Duke, but only the service from Louis XVIII features Egyptian themes.

25. L. Troy, Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History (1986): 178–79; see also H. Gauthier, Le livre des rois d’Égypte (1916): 410–18. 36 Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt 26. P. Köln 81 lists all of Cleopatra III’s cult titles; see also G. Hölbl (2001): 285 for a list of eponymous Alexandrian priesthoods. 27. C. Traunecker, Coptos, Hommes et Dieux sur le Parvis de Geb (1992): 272–303 for a translation of the texts and discussion on the bark shrine. Traunecker suggests that the identity of the male ruler might be Ptolemy XIV.

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