But the country's socialist leader, Hugo Chávez, decided that he wanted to take a ride on live television. He reveres Chávez and is grateful that the socialist state taught him "to eat healthier." In 2008, Chávez boasted that he would transform the steel giant Sidor into a "socialist company owned by the socialist state and the socialist workers." By 2019, at the Sidor plant in Guayana City, "everything was stained with rust," Neuman writes. Speaking of RCTV: At one point in the book, Neuman travels to a café in Berlin for an interview with former RCTV producer Andrés Izarra.

Source: New York Times June 05, 2022 10:03 UTC