News Release

Hugo Chavez author discusses the leader and Venezuela's future

The Carney Latin American Solidarity Archives (CLASA) at University of Detroit Mercy will sponsor a lecture by Veteran Journalist and Hugo Chavez biographer, Bart Jones. The event will be held on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 in the Ford Life Sciences Building Room #115 at 7:30 p.m.

In Jones's lecture, "Hugo Chavez: From Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution" he will discuss the left-wing Venezuelan president as a master politician, an inspired improviser and an unashamed socialist. The controversial leader's policies have been long criticized and clashed with the current Bush Administration. Jones latest book Hugo!, the first English-language biography of Chavez chronicles his rise to power, the coup and Venezuela's future.

Jones is a reporter at Newsday and worked in Venezuela for eight years mainly as a correspondent for the Associated Press. His work has also been featured in Atlantic City Press where he has been recognized several times by the Philadelphia Press Association. He is a graduate of Fordham University with a master's degree in social studies from Columbia University.

The event is free and open to the public.

Release date: March 16, 2008

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