Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left

The highly-regarded author of the first biography of Hugo Chavez brings his considerable expertise to assess the left-leaning regimes in South America. In this insightful and timely examination Nikolas Kozloff discusses the hot-button issues of energy integration free trade agendas culture wars and South Americas emerging role as a new political bloc and how these tectonic political shifts will affect the United States. As Venezuela opposes U.S. militarization in the Andes and Bolivia fights a U.S.-fueled drug war Kozloff looks to the future and what the U.S. must do to maintain these vital economic and political allies.