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Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (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.
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 ...
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.
A map of world oil reserves according to OPEC, 2013 Oil production in Venezuela (red) fell markedly between 2015 and 2020. Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves, totaling 302.81 billion barrels at the end of 2017. [144] The country is a major producer of petroleum products, which remain the keystone of the Venezuelan economy.
A South American crime boss wanted in the killings of at least 23 people in Peru was captured this week in New York, three months after U.S. immigration authorities arrested and then released him ...
The politics of Venezuela are conducted under what is nominally a federal presidential republic, but is in practice an authoritarian system of government. [1][2][3][4] Prior to the early 1990s, Venezuela was considered an unusually long-standing and stable liberal democracy in Latin America, having transitioned to democracy in 1958. [1][2][5 ...
Julie Chavez Rodriguez, center, joins Liz Sherwood-Randall, an advisor to the president on security issues, in a briefing on winter storms with President Biden in the Oval Office in December 2022.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 September 2024. Socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela in the 21st century This article is about the socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela. For other uses, see Venezuelan crisis (disambiguation). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the ...