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Hugo Chávez

1954 - 2013

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Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; Spanish: [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 Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012. Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Chávez has received more than 8,746,075 page views. His biography is available in 139 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 133 in 2019). Hugo Chávez is the 598th most popular politician (up from 714th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Venezuela and the 2nd most popular Venezuelan Politician.

Hugo Chávez was the president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. He was most famous for his socialist policies and his close relationship with Cuba.

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  • 139

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.88

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  • 5.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hugo Chávez ranks 598 out of 19,576. Before him are Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Juliana of the Netherlands, Æthelstan, Aurelian, Didius Julianus, and Christian IV of Denmark. After him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Alexander IV of Macedon, Jeroboam, Oleg of Novgorod, and Constantius Chlorus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Hugo Chávez ranks 7. Before him are Angela Merkel, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Jackie Chan, François Hollande, Denzel Washington, and John Travolta. After him are Shinzō Abe, Alexander Lukashenko, Viktor Yushchenko, Halimah Yacob, James Cameron, and Sócrates. Among people deceased in 2013, Hugo Chávez ranks 4. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Kalashnikov. After him are Peter O'Toole, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Jorge Rafael Videla, Doris Lessing, Heinrich Rohrer, Djalma Santos, and Giulio Andreotti.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez ranks 2 out of 183. Before him are Simón Bolívar (1783). After him are Carlos the Jackal (1949), Nicolás Maduro (1962), Francisco de Miranda (1750), Antonio José de Sucre (1795), Baruj Benacerraf (1920), Carolina Herrera (1939), Rafael Caldera (1916), Reynaldo Hahn (1874), Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922), and Rómulo Betancourt (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In Venezuela

Among politicians born in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez ranks 2. Before him are Simón Bolívar (1783). After him are Nicolás Maduro (1962), Antonio José de Sucre (1795), Carolina Herrera (1939), Rafael Caldera (1916), Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922), Rómulo Betancourt (1908), Ramón José Velásquez (1916), Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914), Juan Vicente Gómez (1857), and José Antonio Páez (1790).

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