Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).

• List of IllustrationsGlossaryTimelineIntroduction: A Man for Difficult Times1. The Plainsman2. The Dream of Simón Bolívar3. From Insurrection to Election4. Episodes in the Class War5. The Bolivarian Revolution Advances6. The Contradictions of Twenty-First-Century Socialism7. The Legacy of Hugo ChávezNotesIndex

'A seminal work on the ideological and political formation of the former Venezuelan President and leading figure of twenty-first century socialism'

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).

• List of IllustrationsGlossaryTimelineIntroduction: A Man for Difficult Times1. The Plainsman2. The Dream of Simón Bolívar3. From Insurrection to Election4. Episodes in the Class War5. The Bolivarian Revolution Advances6. The Contradictions of Twenty-First-Century Socialism7. The Legacy of Hugo ChávezNotesIndex

'A seminal work on the ideological and political formation of the former Venezuelan President and leading figure of twenty-first century socialism'

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).

• List of IllustrationsGlossaryTimelineIntroduction: A Man for Difficult Times1. The Plainsman2. The Dream of Simón Bolívar3. From Insurrection to Election4. Episodes in the Class War5. The Bolivarian Revolution Advances6. The Contradictions of Twenty-First-Century Socialism7. The Legacy of Hugo ChávezNotesIndex

'A seminal work on the ideological and political formation of the former Venezuelan President and leading figure of twenty-first century socialism'