Kubanita
07-03-2005, 10:27 AM
Che Guevara's Daughter Writes Chavez Bio
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
July 3, 2005
HAVANA - Revolutionary fighter Che Guevara's daughter has written a book about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez based on interviews in which they discussed his childhood, family and relationship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
"It is always thrilling to know a bit more about a human being who has decided to transform society, especially when that transformation is meant to improve the lives of his people," Aleida Guevara wrote on the book's back cover.
The book, published by Ocean Press and titled "Chavez: Venezuela and the New Latin America," was presented in Havana Friday by the author and Adan Chavez, Venezuela's ambassador to Cuba and also the president's brother.
Guevara met with Chavez twice in February of 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela for the interview. In the 145-page book, the president talks about his childhood in the southwest region of Barinas, where he was born in 1954, and his close relationship with his grandmother Rosa Ines, who raised him.
The Venezuelan leader also speaks openly about his children, his political life and his friendship with Castro.
"Those who have tried to damage my personal or political image for the special relationship I have with Fidel don't realize that they've only given it more power," Chavez says in the book.
Chavez, who is a close ally of the Cuban president, says Castro is like an older brother _ a father even _ with whom he discusses ideas and receives health advice.
The book has a personal touch because the author's father Che Guevara and Castro were brothers-in-arms in the Cuban revolution and looming icons of the left in Latin America and around the world.
Distribution of the book has begun in English in the United States and Great Britain, and in Spanish in Venezuela and Argentina, according to Ocean Press. It will be released in Ecuador shortly.
On the Net:
www.oceanbooks.com.au
SOURCE (http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/07/03/ap/entertainment/d8b3pcpo1.txt)
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
July 3, 2005
HAVANA - Revolutionary fighter Che Guevara's daughter has written a book about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez based on interviews in which they discussed his childhood, family and relationship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
"It is always thrilling to know a bit more about a human being who has decided to transform society, especially when that transformation is meant to improve the lives of his people," Aleida Guevara wrote on the book's back cover.
The book, published by Ocean Press and titled "Chavez: Venezuela and the New Latin America," was presented in Havana Friday by the author and Adan Chavez, Venezuela's ambassador to Cuba and also the president's brother.
Guevara met with Chavez twice in February of 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela for the interview. In the 145-page book, the president talks about his childhood in the southwest region of Barinas, where he was born in 1954, and his close relationship with his grandmother Rosa Ines, who raised him.
The Venezuelan leader also speaks openly about his children, his political life and his friendship with Castro.
"Those who have tried to damage my personal or political image for the special relationship I have with Fidel don't realize that they've only given it more power," Chavez says in the book.
Chavez, who is a close ally of the Cuban president, says Castro is like an older brother _ a father even _ with whom he discusses ideas and receives health advice.
The book has a personal touch because the author's father Che Guevara and Castro were brothers-in-arms in the Cuban revolution and looming icons of the left in Latin America and around the world.
Distribution of the book has begun in English in the United States and Great Britain, and in Spanish in Venezuela and Argentina, according to Ocean Press. It will be released in Ecuador shortly.
On the Net:
www.oceanbooks.com.au
SOURCE (http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/07/03/ap/entertainment/d8b3pcpo1.txt)