"he gave us hope": on an anniversary date, Venezuelans reflect on Chavez and the revolution
This Wednesday (28), Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías would be 67 years old, if he were alive. Born in Sabaneta, a municipality in the interior of the state of Barinas, Chávez awakened to politics as a lieutenant colonel in the Bolivarian army. After trying to seize power in arms in 1992, Chávez realized that in order to raise a government of the poor, it was necessary to convince the Venezuelan people.
After traveling the country between 1995 and 1998, he was finally elected president of Venezuela with the promise of calling a Constituent Assembly “to refound the Republic”, something he…
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