My First Life: Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet

Introduction: one hundred years with Chavez

Childhood and adolescence (1954-1971). 'History will absorb me'

Family secrets

Hard-working boy

Politics, religion and encyclopaedia

Secondary school in Barinas

From barracks to barracks (1971-1982). Cadet in Caracas

Young officer

In Cumana

In Maracay

Conspiring and recruiting

The road to power (1982-1998). Rebellion in the making

The Caracazo

The rebellion of 4 February 1992

The fertile prison

The victorious campaign.