The president of Venezuela, Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, raised himself as a champion of Latin American and universal justice. Using the resources of the Venezuelan state in an indiscriminate and criminal manner, he was promoted as the great defender of the people and he passed himself off as the great promoter of Simon Bolivar's dream of integration. However, in fact this was a complete and frustrating historical farce, which many people still do not know of. The purpose of Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century, is to dismantle the farce. Venezuela and Latin America have experienced a convulsive beginning of the century. Much of this has been due to the arrival of the charismatic commander Hugo Chávez to power and his crazy ideology of "socialism of the 21st century". This Venezuelan military man wrote a confusing chapter of the recent history of Latin America