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Bookmark or Share- Hugo Chávez - WikipediaHugo 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.
- Hugo Chavez: The Legacy Of A Polarizing Leader - NPRElected president of Venezuela 14 years ago, Chavez set out to change his country from the ground up, adopting a socialist agenda, empowering the poor, aligning himself with Cuba's Fidel...
- Venezuela - Hugo Chavez, Politics, Economy | BritannicaProfessor of Latin-American History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Author of Venezuela and others. Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University. Director, Latin American and Caribbean Program, The Carter Center. Author of Venezuelan Democracy Under Stress.
- Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s Polarizing Leader, Dies at 58 - The New York TimesCARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chávez, who died on Tuesday at 58, rose from poverty in a dirt-floor adobe house to unrivaled influence in Venezuela as its president, consolidating power and wielding...
- Venezuela’s Chavez Era - Council on Foreign RelationsInfluenced by the nineteenth-century Venezuelan revolutionary Simon Bolivar, military officer Hugo Chavez establishes the leftist Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 within the army.
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