Q&A with Bart Jones, a former Associated Press reporter and Catholic mission worker in the slums of Caracas, talking about his biography of Venezulan President Hugo Chavez.

He was literally born in a mud hut and rose to his nation’s highest office. At 17 he gained entrance to his country’s West Point, then later spent 10 years organizing a clandestine conspiracy in the military aimed at overthrowing what he viewed as a corrupt and repressive regime. He launched a coup in 1992, went to jail for two years, and eventually ran for president against a 6-foot-1 blonde former Miss Universe - and won. And that’s just his life before the presidency.

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Source: Venezuelan Analysis