Hugo Chavez

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Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chávez (b. July 28, 1954) is the democratically-elected President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Chávez was elected President in 1998 on promises of aiding Venezuela's poor majority, and was reelected in 2000 and in 2006. Chávez has launched Bolivarian Missions, whose goals are to combat disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other social ills. Chávez openly encourages alternative models of economic development than those of "United States' Capitalism", and has advocated cooperation among the world's poor nations, especially those in Latin America.

According to the Washington Post Chavez has been accused of supplying weapons to Colombian rebels, of financing Bolivian and Ecuadorian groups seeking to establish "Marxist states, and of being, with Cuban leader Fidel Castro's guidance, a "subversive everywhere else in the region.[1]

Through Venezuela's state owned petroleum industry and membership in OPEC, Chávez has now used powers granted to him by Parliament to increase oil prices, stimulating the economy and providing more money for the Bolivarianist projects. Countries such as the United States have criticized Chávez for the increase in cost for crude oil. Chavez is at the forefront of wanting to set crude oil prices at $60 a barrel minimum, according to the Asia Times[2]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with Fidel Castro.

The United States of America and Venezuela's foreign relations are presently unstable. This is understandable given that Chavez often criticizes the United States for its 'imperialism' on his radio segment 'Alo Presidente', and the United States's support of the 2002 coup in Venezuela, toppling Chávez and replacing him with a dictatorial government. (Which was then toppled shortly after by the Chávez supporters, also known as 'Chávistas'). However, Venezuela and the United States remain friendly trading partners when it comes to imports and exports.

Hugo Chávez is a great friend of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and is said to have drawn his political style through influences such as Che Guevara, Karl Marx and Simon Bolivar. The U.S. State Department Report on Global Anti-Semitism cited Chavez in August 2004 warning citizens against following the lead of Jewish citizens in the effort to overturn his referendum victory. [3] Chavez has also embraced a number of world leaders that have hostile relations with the United States, including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, who Chavez has referred to as "my brother".[4] U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said of Chavez, ""Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern-day Simon Bolivar, but all he is is an everyday thug." [5] He is also considered to be an ally of leftist Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, Bolivian president Evo Morales and the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega. Correa


References

  1. ↑ Dealing With the Good and Bad Hugo Chavez, Marcela Sanchez The Washington Post 25 August 2005.
  2. ↑ Bush, OPEC and Chavez of Arabia, Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 7 December 2006.
  3. ↑ Report on Global Anti-Semitism U. S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 5, 2005.
  4. ↑ Chávez decorated in Iran; initials cooperation pacts
  5. ↑ Back to the old days, if only for a minute, Wesley Pruden, Jewish World Review, Sept. 22, 2006.

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