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Apr 2, 2014 · Following his years-long battle with cancer, Hugo Chávez died on March 5, 2013, at age 58, in Venezuela. He was survived by his wife, Maria Isabel Rodriguez, and five children: Rosines, María...
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.
3 days ago · His parents, both schoolteachers, could not support all their children, so Hugo and his eldest brother were raised in Barinas by their grandmother, who instilled in Hugo a love of history and politics.
- Hugo Chávez grew up in Sabaneta, a small town in southwestern Venezuela. He was the second of six surviving children, all boys. His parents, both s...
- Hugo Chávez served as president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. He styled himself as the leader of the “Bolivarian Revolution,” a s...
- Supporters of Hugo Chávez credit his administration with creating successful education programs, increasing access to health care, lowering unemplo...
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias was born on July 28, 1954, in Sabaneta, Venezuela, a small farming village located in the western state of Barinas. Even though both of his parents were school-teachers, the family, like most Venezuelans, was poor and struggled to make ends meet.
Mar 5, 2013 · When he was born, the second of six children, his father, with only a Grade 6 education, taught in Saboneta's only school. The poor and rapidly growing family could not manage on a rural teacher's...
Mar 5, 2013 · Chavez, who was married and divorced twice, is survived by four children and three grandchildren, as well as his parents, Hugo and Helena, and five brothers. Kraul and Mogollon are special ...
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Mar 6, 2013 · Latin America analyst. Hugo Chavez burst onto the national scene in Venezuela in a failed military uprising in 1992. Sentenced to jail for many years, he was soon pardoned as the Venezuelan...