Following his recent death, Hugo Chavez has officially become a mystery to historians and analysts probably take several decades to decipher. This chronic firsthand about Chavez and his political project, written by a correspondent for six years in Caracas, Rory Carroll, is a great starting point to explore the personal labyrinth commander. And as objectively as possible distance, Carroll tries to describe the crazy atmosphere that Chavez's Venezuela was governed by rules and codes always changing, where even junior commander were surprised by the countless blows helm. However, as pointed out by Carroll, "Chavez was not a dictator. He was always a hybrid, an elected autocrat, and this saved him. Elections anchored to the reality, away from the precipice. " Carroll plasma masterfully atmosphere of adoration and hatred, eternal suspicion and fanatical fervor that defined Venezuela until the death of the commander, who was commissioned to prepare the way for final immolation as victim of imperialism, when he declared months before his death: "It would be strange that they had developed a technology to induce cancer and nobody knows what until now and discover that within 50 years or who knows how many?".