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Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician, revolutionary, and military officer who was the president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez changed the country's name from the Republic of Venezuela to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, creating the fifth republic in Venezuelan history and led the Bolivarian revolution. Chávez was the leader of the Fifth Republic Movem…
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politics · President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013 · politician · military officer · also Hugo Chávez, Chávez
Born 28 July 1954 · Died 5 March 2013 · Q8440
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2026· 6 entries
“forget their own structures, party colours and slogans, because they are not the most important thing for the fatherland”
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facebook.com: Exitosa Noticias. . 🔴🔵 #HablemosClaro💬💬 | En diálogo con Exitosa, Hugo Chávez Arévalo, exgerente general de Petroperú durante el gobierno de Pedro Castillo, cuestionó el actual nivel de producción de la empresa estatal. Según indicó, Petroperú no esta
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Resumen Latinoamericano -: Venezuela. En Bolívar y Chávez nos encontramos todos - Resumen Latinoamericano -
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t.co: Heidenheim 1-[1] Bayern Munich — Felipe Chávez with an absolute BEAUTY from the free-kick! 🤯🔥
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El Nacional: Destituyeron de cargo clave a general que acompañó a Hugo Chávez en sus últimos días
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2022· 1 entry
He first wed Nancy Coromoto Colmenares (d. 2022), a woman from a poor family in Chávez's hometown of Sabaneta.
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2020· 2 entries
FactCheck.org rated the claim “Smartmatic voting systems "were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chávez" and used to commit fraud in the 2020 U.S. election.” False.
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The Washington Post rated the claim ““The software that they use is done by a company called Smartmatic, a company that was founded by [Hugo] Chávez and by Chávez’s two allies, who still own it."” Four Pinocchios.
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2019· 1 entry
Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York further provided documents outlining that in 2005 Chávez ordered top lieutenants to discuss plans to ship cocaine to the United States with the help of the FARC
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2015· 1 entry
Chávez's former bodyguard Leamsy Salazar stated in the book Bumerán Chávez that Chávez met with the high command of FARC in 2007 somewhere in rural Venezuela
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Francisco Morazán (2014).
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2013· 20 entries
Awarded Ribbon of the Order of the Republic of Serbia (2013).
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Died 2013-03-05.
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“No cambiemos el clima ¡Cambiemos el sistema! Y en consecuencia comenzaremos a salvar el planeta. El capitalismo, el modelo de desarrollo destructivo está acabando con la vida, amenaza con acabar definitivamente con la especie humana.”
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“Claro que la historia se enlaza, como tu vas a romper las cadenas de la historia, imposible que las rompas.”
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“Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation, of the kind of misery and inequality that destroys social values. If you really look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ - who I think was the first socialist - only socialism can really create a genuine society.”
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According to the Venezuelan government's National Statistics Institute (INE)
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“Los adversarios, los enemigos del país no descansan, ni descansarán, en la intriga y en tratar de dividir sobre todo aprovechando circunstancias como estas, entonces ¿cual es nuestra respuesta? Unidad, Unidad y más unidad esa debe ser nuestra divisa.”
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“Afortunadamente esta revolución no depende de un hombre, hemos pasado etapas y hoy tenemos un liderazgo colectivo que se ha desplegado por todas partes.”
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“Venezuela no será colonia norteamericana nunca más.”
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“Una serpiente es más humana que un fascista o un racista; un tigre es más humano que un fascista o un racista.”
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“Tenemos 500 años aquí y nunca nos callaremos, mucho menos ante un monarca.”
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“Si yo me callo, gritarían las piedras de los pueblos de América Latina que están dispuestos a ser libres de todo colonialismo después de 500 años de coloniaje.”
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“Si el clima fuera un banco, ya lo habrían salvado.”
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“Saber inglés es importante, pero para nosotros los venezolanos creo que sería también importante saber portugués, por eso tenemos que evaluar la posibilidad de que se enseñe en las escuelas.”
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“Estamos en un laberinto sin salida, en el que la solución de los problemas socioeconómicos de Latinoamérica es lenta, vamos mal y vamos de Cumbre en Cumbre, mientras nuestros pueblos van de abismo en abismo.”
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“...Esta es una victoria... de mierda. Y la nuestra; llámenla derrota, llámenla, pero es de coraje, es de valor, es de dignidad.”
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“Bolivia tuvo mar. Yo sueño con bañarme en una playa boliviana.”
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“Caracas, linda Caracas, Caracas de mis amores..." Feliz día, Caracas, Ciudad Libertadora! Te amo, Ciudad Rebelde y bella!”
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“Estamos comenzando a mirar lo que el padre libertador imaginaba: una gran región donde debe reinar la justicia, la igualdad y la libertad. Fórmula mágica para la vida de las naciones y la paz entre los pueblos!”
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Economic actions performed by his government during the preceding decade, such as deficit spending and price controls, proved to be unsustainable, with Venezuela's economy faltering
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2012· 3 entries
Venezuela's elections used biometric authentication to activate the voting machine
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The World Bank also explained that Venezuela's economy was "extremely vulnerable" to changes in oil prices since in 2012 "96% of the country's exports and nearly half of its fiscal revenue" relied on oil production, whil
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“another mechanism for contact with the public, to evaluate many things and to help many people”
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2011· 4 entries
Putting Venezuela behind only Canada in the Western Hemisphere
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“s gold industry, taking it over from Russian-controlled company Rusoro, while at the same time also moving the country”
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Called on the middle classes and the private sector to get more involved in his Bolivarian Revolution, something he saw as "vital" to its success
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Food prices in Caracas were nine times higher than when the price controls were put in place and resulted in shortages of cooking oil, chicken, powdered milk, cheese, sugar and meat
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2010· 4 entries
Caracas had the highest murder rate in the world, having more deaths than Baghdad during the Iraq War
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In 2010, Alberto Müller Rojas, then vice president of Chávez's party, PSUV, stated that Chávez had "a tendency toward cyclothymia—mood swings that range from moments of extreme euphoria to moments of despondence".
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Amnesty International criticized the Chávez administration for targeting critics following several politically motivated arrests
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Hugo Chávez proclaimed support for the ideas of Marxist Leon Trotsky, saying "When I called him (former Minister of Labour, José Ramón Rivero)" Chávez explained, "he said to me: 'President I want to tell you something be
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2009· 4 entries
It was reported that Venezuelan authorities would assign judicial police to Caracas area morgues to speak with families
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Attacks on a synagogue in Caracas were alleged to be influenced by "vocal denunciations of Israel" by the Venezuelan state media and Hugo Chávez, even though Chavez promptly condemned the attacks, blaming an "oligarchy"
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The Attorney General announced the creation of an investigative team to examine 6,000 reports of extrajudicial killings between 2000 and 2007
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Judge María Lourdes Afiuni was arrested on charges of corruption after ordering the conditional release on bail of businessman Eligio Cedeño, who then fled the country
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded Order of the Friendship of Peoples (2008).
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Awarded Blue Planet Award (2008).
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Human Rights Watch released a report reviewing Chávez's human rights record over his first decade in power
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And 165th out of 176 (tied with Burundi, Chad, and Haiti)
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2007· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Augusto César Sandino (2007).
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The Bolivarian government set up a constitutional commission to review the 1999 constitution and suggest potential amendments to be made to it
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Authorities in Colombia declared that through laptops they had seized on a raid against Raúl Reyes, they found in documents that Hugo Chávez offered payments of as much as $300 million to the FARC "among other financial
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Career landmark: party leader (2007–2013).
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2006· 4 entries
Won Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (2006).
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Chávez inaugurated a state-funded movie studio called Villa del Cine (English: Cinema City)
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“s broadcast license which expired on 27 May 2007, thereby forcing the channel to cease operations on that day. On 17 May 2007, the government rejected a plea made by RCTV to stop the TV station”
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center published a shortened version of a speech by Chávez, which significantly changed its meaning to make it appear that he had made anti-Semitic remarks
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2005· 2 entries
His fifth daughter, Génesis María, was born in Chacao Municipality; the fruit of his relationship with Barinese, Bexhi Lisette Segura (1971); who was the Venezuelan Consul in Guayaquil and on May 3, 2008, his last daught
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A member of Venezuela's energy ministries stated it would take more than 15 years for PDVSA to recover from Chávez's actions
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2004· 5 entries
Awarded National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (2004).
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Just two years after surviving a coup attempt
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Amnesty International criticized Chávez's administration of not handling the 2002 coup in a proper manner, saying that violent incidents "have not been investigated effectively and have gone unpunished" and that "impunit
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Chávez used the National Commission of Telecommunications and the Social Responsibility in Radio, Television and Electronic Media law to officially censor media organizations
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Hugo Chávez and his allies took over the Supreme Court, filling it with supporters of Chávez and made new measures so the government could dismiss justices from the court
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2003· 3 entries
“the devastating logic of capital”
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Chávez argued that the Soviet Union disappeared when it failed in its efforts to dismantle "the devastating logic of capital", stating that it is the "alternative model" that he promoted was the one now confronting "neol
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“an alternative economy to dehumanized capitalism.”
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2002· 1 entry
Chávez shared his views on capitalism, saying that the Bolivarian Revolution was an alternative to neoliberalism, saying that capitalism was "sown
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of International Business and Economics (2001).
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Awarded Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry (2001).
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The government introduced a new Hydrocarbons Law through which it sought to gain greater state control over the oil industry
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1999· 8 entries
Awarded Order of José Martí (1999).
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Rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange
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Ranking its freedom very low at 174th of 177 countries, with freedom on a downward trend
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“If you are attempting to determine whether Chavez is of the left, right, or center, if he is socialist, Communist, or capitalist, well, I am none of those, but I have a bit of all of those.”
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Career landmark: President of Venezuela (1999–2013).
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And the initiation of the Bolivarian Revolution, a period of transformation and political conflict began, marked by a further increase in the number and rate of violent deaths" showing that in four years, the murder rate
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Chávez argued that a new constitution drafted by an assembly packed with his allies would distance Venezuela from "savage capitalism
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Chávez told the New York Times that "If you are attempting to determine whether Chavez is of the left, right, or center, if he is socialist, Communist, or capitalist, well, I am none of those, but I have a bit of all of
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1998· 8 entries
Election won: 1998 election.
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(daughter of María), Manuel Alejandro Prieto, born on September 1, 2003 and Jorge Alejandro Arreaza, born on September 18, 2007 (sons of Rosa) and Hugo Rafael, born on March 9, 2013 and Miranda, born on November 2, 2014
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Until his death in March 2013, Chávez's administration proposed and enacted populist economic policies
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Initially believed that capitalism was still a valid economic model for Venezuela, but only Rhenish capitalism, not neoliberalism
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Campaign: 1998 election.
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More than 100,000 state-owned cooperatives—which claimed to represent some 1
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“I am not a socialist. I believe that today”
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“convening a constituent assembly to write a new constitution, eliminating government corruption, and fighting against social exclusion and poverty”
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1997· 2 entries
Until it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the ruling party of Venezuela since 2007
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Through that marriage, Chávez had another daughter, Rosinés, born on September 23, 1997 in Barquisimeto.
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1996· 1 entry
“I am not Marxist, but I am not anti-Marxist. I am not communist, but I am not anti-communist.”
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1994· 2 entries
Rafael Caldera (1916–2009) of the centrist National Convergence Party who allegedly had knowledge of the coup was elected president and soon afterward he freed Chávez and the other imprisoned MBR-200 members, though Cald
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Initiated affairs with women that had been his followers
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1992· 1 entry
The couple separated soon after Chávez's 1992 coup attempt.
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1989· 1 entry
Carlos Andrés Pérez was elected president, and though he had promised to oppose the International Monetary Fund's policies, once he got into office he enacted economic policies supported by the IMF, angering the public
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1984· 1 entry
Met Herma Marksman, a recently divorced history teacher with whom he had an affair that lasted several years
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1978· 1 entry
In Maracay, María Gabriela, born on March 12, 1980 in Barinas and Hugo Rafael, born on October 14, 1982 in Barinas; the last of whom suffers from behavioural problems
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1977· 2 entries
Founded a revolutionary movement within the armed forces, in the hope that he could one day introduce a leftist government to Venezuela: the Venezuelan People's Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación del Pueblo de Ve
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Chávez's unit was transferred to Anzoátegui, where they were involved in battling the Red Flag Party, a Marxist–Hoxhaist insurgency group
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1975· 1 entry
Chávez graduated from the military academy as one of the top graduates of the year
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1974· 1 entry
Was selected to be a representative in the commemorations for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Ayacucho in Peru, the conflict in which Simon Bolívar's lieutenant, Antonio José de Sucre, defeated royalist forces
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-07-28.
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