Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the age of 58 deceased. That is vice president Nicolás Maduro announced tonight.
Chavez was operated on for cancer several times, most recently in December 2012. After struggling with various complications. This morning let the government know that he fought for his life now again an infection of the respiratory tract occurred.
Chavez was inspired by freedom fighter Bolivar
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, born on July 28, 1954, reports on the age of seventeen at the military academy in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. He is there not only trained as military but also get a broad education. Young recruits have a great general knowledge, as is the view of a group of nationalist officers. Chavez read books of Che Guevara, Karl Marx and Napoleon Bonaparte and became interested in the life and ideas of Simón Bolívar, a South American freedom fighter from the nineteenth century.
Chávez focuses early eighties an underground movement named after the inspiration: the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200, short MBR-200, which has the goal of the Venezuelan political system to overthrow. It is corrupt and undemocratic, is Chavez. In 1992, he leads a failed coup, so he ends up in jail.
If “poverty fighter” was elected president in 1998
After two years, Chávez free, after which he was the Social Democratic Party Movement founder of the Fifth Republic. In 1998 he was elected president of Venezuela. He creates a new constitution, which minority groups more rights and the government structure reforms. Chavez, who is re-elected in 2000, gaining popularity because he cares about the underclass, but gets the opposition and human rights organizations criticize that he democracy, freedom of expression and press freedom undermines.
He nevertheless grows from the informal leader of the South American continent. He gets a lot of allies in the region, including communist Cuba of the Castro brothers, and opposes the foreign policy of the USA.
Chávez resists a military coup in 2002 and a referendum in 2004. In 2006 he was reelected, and a year later he founded a new political party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Fight against cancer since June 2011
In June 2011, Chávez, then aged 56, had surgery in Cuba because a tumor in his pelvis was found. In the subsequent period, there remains uncertainty about his health – a month later he returns again return to Cuba for chemotherapy. In July 2012 he declares that he is completely healed and is, three months before the elections, available to a new six-year term. He wins again , albeit with a slight difference.
The inauguration is scheduled for January 10, 2013, but in late November he yet again to Cuba for cancer treatment. In mid-December, he re-operation , and in the new year ‘complications’ occur as a result of a respiratory infection. Who adhere to and worsen until he dies on March 5, 2013.
Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President, Dead at 58
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