{"product_id":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-isbn-9781844671021","title":"Pirates of the Caribbean","description":"Since 1998, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chavez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. While Chavez’s radical social-democratic reforms have brought him worldwide acclaim among the poor, he has attracted intense hostility from Venezuelan elites and Western governments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chavez, Tariq Ali shows how Chavez’s views have polarized Latin America and examines the hostility directed against his administration. Ali discusses the enormous influence of Fidel Castro on both Chavez and Evo Morales, the newly-elected President of Bolivia, and contrasts the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutionary processes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePirates of the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e guides us through a world divided between privilege and poverty, a continent that is once again on the march.“Tariq Ali, the Johnny Depp of international comment, sails out in this little barque ... to assault the top-heavy galleon Washington Consensus, as she labours leaking through the South Seas and the Spanish Main ...”—\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exuberant and good to read.”—\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTariq Ali\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including \u003ci\u003ePirates of the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBush in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Clash of Fundamentalisms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Obama Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in London.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301071147237,"sku":"NP9781844671021","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844671021.jpg?v=1767734812","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-isbn-9781844671021","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}