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Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez (02-04-2010).jpg
Chávez in 2010
President of Venezuela
In office
14 April 2002 – 5 March 2013
Vice Presidents
Preceded by Diosdado Cabello (Acting)
Succeeded by Nicolás Maduro
In office
2 February 1999 – 12 April 2002
Vice Presidents
Preceded by Rafael Caldera
Succeeded by Pedro Carmona (Interim)
De facto President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
In office
24 March 2007 – 5 March 2013
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Nicolás Maduro
Personal details
Born Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
(1954-07-28)28 July 1954
Sabaneta, Venezuela
Died 5 March 2013(2013-03-05) (aged 58)
Caracas, Venezuela
Resting place Cuartel de la Montaña
Caracas, Venezuela
Political party Fifth Republic Movement
(1997–2007)
United Socialist Party
(2007–13)
Other political
affiliations
Great Patriotic Pole
(2011–13)
Spouse(s) Nancy Colmenares (divorced)
Marisabel Rodríguez (divorced)
Children Rosa Virginia
María Gabriela
Hugo Rafael
Rosinés
Alma mater Military Academy of Venezuela
Religion Roman Catholicism
Signature
Military service
Allegiance  Venezuela
Service/branch Venezuelan Army
Years of service 1971–1992
Rank Lieutenant colonel

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈuɣo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβes ˈfɾi.as]; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who served as the 64th President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013. He was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement 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 working-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer, and after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system based on the Punto Fijo Pact, he founded the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s. Chávez led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful coup d'état against the Democratic Action government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1992, for which he was imprisoned.

Released from prison after two years, he founded a political party known as the Fifth Republic Movement and was elected president of Venezuela in 1998. He was re-elected in 2000 and again in 2006 with over 60% of the votes. After winning his fourth term as president in the October 2012 presidential election, he was to be sworn in on 10 January 2013, but Venezuela's National Assembly postponed the inauguration to allow him time to recover from medical treatment in Cuba. Suffering a return of the cancer originally diagnosed in June 2011, Chávez died in Caracas on 5 March 2013 at the age of 58.


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