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Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías[b] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈuɣo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβes ˈfɾi.as] ⓘ; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the ...
For his part, Chávez was determined to prove that the world had drawn the wrong lesson from the collapse of Eastern European communism; Chávez believed that Castro, who he referred to as a ...
The Bolivarian Revolution is an ongoing political process in Venezuela that was started by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth Republic Movement and later the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and his successor Nicolás Maduro. The Bolivarian Revolution is named after Simón Bolívar, an early 19th-century ...
The early life of Hugo Chávez spans the first twenty-one years (1954–1975) of the former President of Venezuela 's life. Leader of the "Bolivarian Revolution", Hugo Chávez is known for his socialist governance, his promotion of Latin American integration, and his radical critique of neoliberal globalization and United States foreign policy ...
In 2006 Chavez accused the United States government of attempting to turn Colombia into Venezuela's adversary over the recent arms dispute. "The U.S. empire doesn't lose a chance to attack us and try to create discord between us. That's one of the empire's strategies: Try to keep us divided." Chavez said in response to the United States government.
e. The Venezuelan coup attempt of February 1992 was an attempt to seize control of the government of Venezuela by the Hugo Chávez -led Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) that took place on 4 February 1992. [3] The coup was directed against President Carlos Andrés Pérez and occurred in a period marked by economic liberalization ...
At the weekend, Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party held a first congress without Chavez, naming him their "eternal leader" while also voting Maduro as new party president. Show comments Advertisement
Dmitry Medvedev, Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Daniel Ortega met to discuss the proposed regional economic bloc known as ALBA on 27 November 2008. One of the Chávez administration's primary goals was to reduce the influence of foreign capitalists in Venezuela, as part of its overall push towards localized economic democratization.