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 THE ROAD OF VICTORY
 
From Poverty to Power is the story of a poor boy from the largest nation of South America managing to survive in the early 1980s despite extreme poverty, physical abuse, hunger, disease and countless childhood traumas. The book details what it was like for him to live under these devastating hardships, and it describes how he eventually made his way to Canada in 1988 and found victory and meaning in his life.