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hugo chavez baby
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was born on July 28 1954 in sabaneta barinas. -
hugos grandmother
Hugo was one of the six children in his family his parents were both school teachers so they didn’t have enough money to raise six children so in 1959 they sent hugo and his oldest brother Adán to their grandmother's house who got hugo to love history and politics. -
Bolívar and karl
In 1967 as a teenager hugo was very interested in José Esteban Ruiz Guevara who was a local historian who introduced him to Bolívar and karl marx who were german philosophers . -
fidel castro
In the 1960s the communist guerrilla insurgency was fighting against Venezuelan government this affected hugo greatly because the guerrilla insurgency was supported by cuban leader fidel castro who would be hugo's political muse . -
army baseball
In 1971 hugo joined the Venezuelan military academy in caracas not because he wanted to be a professional baseball player and the academy had good coaches . -
mission pres
On february 4th 1992 he went on a mission to overthrow the pres government but they failed and the pres government quickly took over hugo's their base . -
no more bloodshed
In 1992 hugo surrendered and went on national tv and told the rest of the troops that it was pointless to go on all it would cause is more bloodshed. -
hugo takes office
In february 1999 hugo chavez took office during his first year in office his approval rating reached 80 percent and his platform which advocated an end to corruption, increased spending on social programs, and redistribution of the country’s oil wealth. -
support hugo
In 2000 while many Venezuelans had supported Chávez as an alternative to the corrupt two-party system that had ruled since 1958, others were alienated by his increasingly radical agenda. He formed intimate ties with Castro and stated his intent to take Venezuela down a path similar to Cuba’s. -
Chávez’s resignation
On April 11, 2002, a rally estimated at close to a million people marched on the president’s palace to demand Chávez’s resignation. The rally was met with pro-Chávez gunmen and National Guard troops, and a gun battle erupted, leaving dead and wounded on both sides. The violence sparked a military revolt, and, in a move widely condemned as an illegal coup d’état, the military took Chávez into custody. The following day the military established an interim government, choosing Pedro Carmona, -
Chávez presidential palace
Chávez returned to the presidential palace on the morning of April 14 2010 .The coup was the first of a string of conflicts between the Chávez government and the opposition clashes that continued to polarize Venezuelan society into two bitterly opposed camps: Chávez supporters and opposition members a derisive term coined by Chávez but quickly and proudly embraced by the opposition. -
hugo's death
Hugo died on march 5th 2013 in caracas Venezuela of a heart attack