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Ebook About From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Power comes an edge-of-your-seat political thriller about rival spies, dangerous love, and one of history’s most devastating revolutions.Venezuela, 1992. Unknown colonel Hugo Chávez stages an ill-fated coup against a corrupt government, igniting the passions of Venezuela’s poor and catapulting the oil-rich country to international attention. For two rival spies hurriedly dispatched to Caracas—one from Washington, DC, and the other from Fidel Castro’s Cuba—this is a career-defining mission.Smooth-talking Iván Rincón of Cuba’s Intelligence Directorate needs a rebel ally to secure the future of his own country. His job: support Chávez and the revolution by rallying the militants and neutralizing any opposing agents.Meanwhile, the CIA’s Cristina Garza will do everything in her power to cut Chávez’s influence short. Her priority: stabilize the greatest oil reserves on the planet by ferreting out and eliminating Cuba’s principal operative.As Chávez surges to power, Iván and Cristina are caught in the fallout of a toxic political time bomb: an intrepid female reporter and unwitting informant, a drug lord and key architect in Chávez’s rise, and personal entanglements between the spies themselves. With everything at stake, the adversaries find themselves at the center of a game of espionage, seduction, murder, and shifting alliances playing out against the precarious backdrop of a nation in free fall. A thrilling fictional story based on unimaginable real-life events.Book Two Spies in Caracas: A Novel Review :
I chose this as my Amazon “First Read” for July because I thought a spy novel by someone who wasn’t from the United States or England would be interesting, especially since it was about Venezuela which I really don’t know very much about. And I was intrigued by the author, Moisés Naím, who was once the dean of Venezuela's leading business school and then its Minister of Trade and Industry, and who is now a highly respected journalist and writer of non-fiction books about geopolitics and international economics.“Two Spies in Caracas” is Mr. Naím’s first novel. Unfortunately, his significant talents do not lend themselves well to fiction. He seeks to tell the story of Ivan, a Cuban intelligence officer, and Cristina, a CIA officer, both assigned to Caracas during Hugo Chavez’s rise to power. While Mr. Naim certainly seems to know what went on during that period, and while there’s a lot that he tells us about Chavez and that time, he is not very successful at blending that information into a riveting espionage thriller.The characters are neither well-researched nor well-drawn. For example, Cristina is supposed to have been a former Marine who saw combat in Panama in 1988 as part of operation “Just Cause” and is suffering from PTSD as a result. Except that it wasn’t until 1994 that the Marines began opening combat roles to women. And Mr. Naím is woefully light on the details of her work as a CIA officer. It’s tough to tell whether she’s a field agent or an analyst or, indeed, how she gets anything done, leading the reader to conclude that the author really doesn’t know much about the CIA or how it works. In other words, I was having major problems willingly suspending my disbelief and getting involved in the story.And the writing is much more journalistic--or expository--than it is dramatic. In the parlance of fiction writers, there’s a whole lot of “telling” and not very much “showing.” Indeed, much of the time, I felt like I was reading a non-fiction history instead of a novel. That also acted as a tremendous barrier to me getting involved with the story.However, those who are interested in Venezuela and what happened there and why it happened, and how Chavez caused it to happen may very well find what Mr. Naím has to say informative.But as a spy novel? “Two Spies in Caracas” really didn’t work for me. It would have been nice to read a spy thriller, but the author seems obsessed with demonizing Hugo Chávez and his government.Let's not forget, Chávez's administration reduced inequality by 54% and poverty from 70.8% (1996) to 21% (2010). Under Chávez, extreme poverty was reduced from 40% (1996) to 7.3% (2010). Over 2 million elderly people received old-age pensions – that is 66% of the elderly population - while only 387,000 received pensions before Chávez. Illiteracy was eliminated, and Chávez introduced tuition free education from daycare to university and built or refurbished thousands of schools, including 10 new universities. Before the Chávez government in 1998, 21% of the population was malnourished. By 2012, malnourishment was only 5%, and child malnutrition, which was 7.7% in 1990 was at 2.9% by 2012. During the 2000s, Venezuela even sent free heating oil to the US northeast, to help poverty-stricken Americans with their energy bills during the cold northern winters. Reading Moisés Naím's book, one might be tempted to think that none of these things ever happened, yet the reality is that Chávez's socialist programs were so successful that the US, fearing a red tide in Latin America, felt it necessary to launch a propaganda campaign the likes of which we haven't seen since the McCarthy era, and to impose crippling and illegal sanctions on the Venezuelan people that are still in effect to this day.Of course, none of this appears in Moisés Naím's novel. Instead we get a fantasy in which Chávez is basically a Castro puppet who completely ruins Venezuela's economy (and there's not a single mention of the aforementioned US sanctions which were the real cause of the Venezuelan economy tanking). Maybe the reason for this demonization is that Naím served as Venezuela's Minister of Trade and Industry in the administration that governed Venezuela before Chávez came to power. Maybe there's some shame over the fact that socialism achieved what neoliberalism abjectly failed to do for the Venezuelan people, and maybe that fuels a desire to outright lie about Chávez's character and ignore his achievements. Or maybe it's just that the author's political philosophy doesn't allow him to admit that Chávez's Bolivarian revolution was a resounding success. But whatever Naím's reasons for demonizing Chávez, instead of an honest assessment, we get a ridiculous caricature of Hugo Chávez as a narcissistic, petty and selfish dictator. Hugo Chávez surely had his flaws (don't we all?), and he may even have been prone to narcissism and self-aggrandizement (what national leader isn't?), but a petty and selfish dictator he certainly was not. He used Venezuela's riches to help the impoverished and educate the entire population, and this made him so incredibly popular that he was elected to the presidency four times.Needless to say, I won't be reading anything more from Moisés Naím - I prefer the novels I read to be entertainment, not thinly veiled propaganda disguised as entertainment. 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