Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was the 56th President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999 until the time of his dead in 2013. He was of Native-Latino American descent. Following his own political ideology of Bolivarianism and "Socialism for the 21st Century", he had focused on implementing socialist reforms in