"Oil is geopolitical weapon" -- The battle for control over oil -- TINA : "there is no alternative" -- Chávez and his fight against neoliberalism -- Chávez's civil-military alliance -- The test of Chávez's civil-military alliance -- Chávez's South American oil diplomacy -- Chávez and the information war against the Bush administration -- In the Andes, turning the tide against the United States -- The Chávez-Morales axis -- Epilogue : extending oil diplomacy to the United States.