Venezuelan politician, 56th president of Venezuela (1954–2013)
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A career army officer who attempted a coup, went to prison, then won four presidential elections and ruled Venezuela for 14 years — remaking the country through oil-funded social programs, state nationalizations, and a self-described Marxist agenda that inspired a wave of left-wing governments across Latin America while presiding over democratic backsliding
Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a military officer but grew dissatisfied with Venezuela's political system and founded the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 in the early 1980s. He led an unsuccessful coup against President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1992 and was imprisoned, then pardoned two years later. He founded the Fifth Republic Movement and won the presidency in 1998 with 56.2% of the vote, then reelection in 2000, 2006, and 2012 with escalating margins. Using record oil revenues, his government nationalized key industries and created social programs t…
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We need to leave behind us the horrendous capitalist system that has been installed here, by those who attempted to dominate the people and to throw them into poverty.
I give you a replica of liberator Simon Bolivar's sword. For you who, like Bolivar, took up arms to liberate your people.
For a long time my country has been divided, but by a minority that lives in extreme wealth with a majority that lives in poverty. This is a dangerous and explosive division.
This project forms part of a distinct vision more progressive than the capitalist model. Today (Friday) we take a step forward in the economic and social revolution.
This Sunday, what’s at stake is not whether a man stays in power but a political model that is confronting capitalism and neoliberalism.
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