Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez

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 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 and, after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system based on the Puntofijo Pact, he founded the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Chávez has received more than 8,056,222 page views. His biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 132 in 2019). Hugo Chávez is the 715th most popular politician (up from 732nd 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.