Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Fríaswas 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, which he led until 2012...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 July 1954
CitySabaneta, Venezuela
Hugo Chavez quotes about
triumph
Your triumph is the triumph of all of Venezuela,
birth republic
The birth has occurred. A new republic has been born.
america brazil indian president south woman worker
South America has changed. A worker is president of Brazil - there comes Lula; an Indian is president of Bolivia; a woman is president of Chile, and in Venezuela, a revolutionary soldier, which is what I am.
circumstance present
Under the present circumstances, it will take at least 200 years.
break circumstance clean decided reviewing
Under those circumstances we decided to make a clean break with those accords, and we are reviewing them,
democracy measure pressure
Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.
elite governing government
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
helps pray reinforce soil suffered though tragedy unity
We have suffered from this tragedy as though we were from Martinique, as though we were French, ... I pray that this tragedy ... on Venezuelan soil helps us reinforce our unity ... We are all Caribbean.
denounce intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals plans reports supposed
We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it,
came feed fighter fix followers injustice quixote rid spirit
We are all going to read Quixote to feed our spirit with this fighter who came out to get rid of injustice and fix the world, ... To some degree, we are followers of Quixote.
continue equality queen whose
we should continue with this process, whose only queen is equality
turned
We are very saddened by this tragedy, ... turned off.
snakes fascists humans
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
justice everyday mind
Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can not be transcended through capitalism itself; it must be done through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.