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Hugo Chávez
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Hugo Chávez
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1954-07-28,Sabaneta, Venezuela
Gender
Male
Biography
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born July 28, 1954) was the 56th President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999 until the time of his dead in 2013. Following his own political ideology of Bolivarianism and "Socialism for the 21st Century", he had focused on implementing socialist reforms in the country as a part of a social project known as the Bolivarian Revolution, which has seen the implementation of a new constitution, participatory democracy and the nationalisation of several key industries. Born into a working class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer, and after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan puntofijismo political system which he viewed as corrupt and undemocratic, he founded the secretive Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s to work towards overthrowing it. After the Democratic Action government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez ordered the violent repression of protests against spending cuts, Chávez led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful coup d'état against the government in 1992, for which he was imprisoned. Getting out of prison after two years, he founded a political party, the Fifth Republic Movement, and was elected president of Venezuela in 1998. He subsequently introduced a new constitution which increased rights for marginalised groups and altered the structure of Venezuelan government, and was re-elected in 2000. During his second presidential term, he introduced a system of Bolivarian Missions, Communal Councils and worker-managed cooperatives, whilst also nationalising various key industries. The opposition movement meanwhile, fearing that he was eroding representative democracy and becoming increasingly authoritative, attempted to remove him from power both through an unsuccessful military coup in 2002 and a recall referendum in 2003. He was again elected into power in 2006, following which he founded a new political party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), in 2007. A vocal critic of capitalism and in particular neoliberalism, Chávez has been a prominent opponent of the United States' foreign policy, which he describes as imperialistic. Allying himself strongly with the socialist governments of Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Rafael Correa of Ecuador, his presidency is seen as a part of the leftist "pink tide" sweeping Latin America. He has supported Latin American and Caribbean cooperation and was instrumental in setting up the pan-regional Union of South American Nations, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, the Bank of the South, and the regional television network TeleSur. His political influence in Latin America led Time magazine to include him among their list of the world's 100 most influential people in both 2005 and 2006.

Filmography

South of the Border

5.7

South of the Border
2009-09-07

Transatlantic Malaise

0

Transatlantic Malaise
2023-08-09

La damnation de l'or noir: L'histoire brûlante du pétrole sur un siècle

8

La damnation de l'or noir: L'histoire brûlante du pétrole sur un siècle
2003-01-01

2.5

My Friend Hugo
2014-03-05

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

7.7

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2003-03-07

Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...

6

Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...
2007-04-04

CAP: 2 Intentos

10

CAP: 2 Intentos
2016-12-02

6.1

Crude
2009-09-09

2.056

The Undefeated
2011-07-15

Hugo Chávez: Itinéraire d'un révolutionnaire

0

Hugo Chávez: Itinéraire d'un révolutionnaire
2016-01-01

0

The Threat
2008-01-01

7.103

Snowden
2016-09-15

Speaking Freely Volume 5: Hugo Chavez

0

Speaking Freely Volume 5: Hugo Chavez
2008-04-15

Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century

6

Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
2018-06-15

The War on Democracy

7.5

The War on Democracy
2007-06-15

Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa

4

Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa
2019-09-18

The Inconclusive Independence

6.5

The Inconclusive Independence
2010-01-05

Mentiras verdaderas

5.5

Mentiras verdaderas
2011-10-11