Worshiped by his poor followers, despised by his opponents and declared
the number one threat to US interests in the Western Hemisphere by the
Bush administration. This is the story of how Hugo Chávez, a poor boy
raised in a mud hut in rural Venezuela, rose to global fame as he took
on local elites and US hegemony. Also features an exclusive interview
with Chávez and previously unreported WikiLeaks documents on US efforts
to defeat Chávez and his political project.