Confidante of Tyrants

`I had breakfast with Hugo Chavez, lunch with Bashar al-Assad,cocktails with Putin and dinner with Qadafi. Fidel Castrowooed me with flowers, perfume and cigars. Ahmadinejad toldme he loved me. Chavez proclaimed me `The Girlfriend ofVenezuela'. But I am not a spy, and I am not a traitor.'When US law [...]
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`I had breakfast with Hugo Chavez, lunch with Bashar al-Assad,cocktails with Putin and dinner with Qadafi. Fidel Castrowooed me with flowers, perfume and cigars. Ahmadinejad toldme he loved me. Chavez proclaimed me `The Girlfriend ofVenezuela'. But I am not a spy, and I am not a traitor.'When US lawyer Eva Golinger first spent some time inVenezuela uncovering her ancestral roots, she little realizedhow the country was going to change her life. Within afew years she had become an enthusiast for the BolivarianRevolution and a close confidante of its charismatic leader,Hugo Chavez. She achieved worldwide notoriety by exposingand condemning US intervention in Venezuela and ended uptravelling with Chavez all over the world, spending time withmany other controversial leaders.In this frank and disarming memoir, she tells the full storyof her time in Chavez's inner circle and reflects on what shehas learned about revolutionary politics, about the dangers ofauthoritarian populism - and about herself.