About the book: year / Marquez’s impressions of Colonel Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. The Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner traveled with Hugo Chavez from Havana to Caracas a few days before the colonel took over as president of Venezuela on February 2, 1999. Then Marquez wrote down for Cambio magazine his impressions of the colonel, whose personality intrigued him. Published by: Revista Cambio. Translation: InoSMI.Ru.