Pirates of the Caribbean : axis of hope / Tariq Ali.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The age of disinformation -- 2. Imperial vapours -- 3. The fierce bull and the cunning donkeys -- 4. Bolivia again -- 5. The old man and the revolution : notes from a Havana diary -- 6. The past as epilogue : the lives of Simon Bolivar -- App. 1. Teodoro Petkoff : a man for all seasons -- App. 2. Le Monde is not the worst, but ... -- App. 3. We have learned our lesson : whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger -- App. 4. My story has only just begun -- App. 5. Power to the people -- App. 6. Hugo Chavez addresses the United Nations.

A study of the revolutionary process throughout Latin America as a challenge to the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy focuses on the radical social democratic reforms of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.