Chavez: Hugo Chávez and Movimiento Quinta Republica Essay

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Hugo Chavez was the president of Venezuela from 1998 until the day of his death,

March 3 of 2015. Before he was President, he was a Lieutenant Coronel in the Venezuelan

Army and in 1993 headed a coupe that was unsuccessful, so he was put in jail. When the

President of Venezuela of that time, Rafael Cadera, pardoned Chavez, he entered the

political life and formed his own political party called Movimiento Quinta Republica. At

that time, Chavez asked the question of why there was poverty in Venezuela even though

Venezuela was very rich in oil and selling that oil. He thought that the country should have

enough money so that poverty would not exist. He said that that was because the

politicians that had governed Venezuela were all corrupt and where bad governors. He also

said that that capitalism, free markets, trade and a normal economy like the one in the

United States did not in Venezuela. If it had worked, Venezuela wouldn't have poor people

and everything would be all right in the country. But things were not alright. He said that

the solution to Venezuela's problems and the way to have no more poor people was with

capitalism, but instead there was socialism and he called this socialism "The socialism of

the twenty first century." He was a very charismatic man to the poor people they heard and

admired his message. Venezuela's poor people believed in him and they had faith in Hugo

Chavez. They all believed that he would eliminate poverty, that the hospitals would work

well in the country, that there would be food for the poor and nobody would be hungry, that

all poor children would go to school or have a glass of milk and breakfast in the morning at

the schools. Since there weren't enough doctors in Venezuela, he made a deal with Cuba so

they could send Doctors and medicine to Venezuela, and Venezuela would send in return

oil to Cuba. He listened a lot to the President of Cuba, Fidel
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