Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died after two years of suffering from cancer, Vice-President Nicolas Maduri announcing in a speech on Tuesday (5/3) local time. Socialist leader's death ended the 14-year rule in the oil-rich Latin American region.
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In October 2012, Chavez easily won the presidential election for the sixth time. His death will hit millions of supporters who admired charismatic style, anti-American rhetoric, and subsidy policies.
While on the other hand, critics of Chavez said that he was selfish dictator who easily accuse his political enemies as traitors of the country. Chavez's economic policies were also criticized for placing static economic model to support a temporary oil revenues.
Hugo Chavez whose full Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias was President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death on March 5, 2013. Hugo Chavez was born July 28, 1954.
Chavez underwent a military career, and when he is not satisfied with the political system of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution he founded the Movement-200 (Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement/MBR-200) in the early 1980s.
He led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful coup against the government of President Carlos Perez Andes in 1992, so he was sent to prison. After two years of release from prison, he founded a social democratic party called the Fifth Republic Movement, and was elected President of Venezuela in 1998.
At the beginning of its leadership, Hugo Chavez pushing constitutional amendments that raise new rights for marginalized groups and change the structure of the government of Venezuela. That led to his re-election in the 2000 election.
During the second period of his leadership, he introduced a system known as the Bolivarian Mission (Bolivarian Missions), Communal Council (Representative Communal) and form cooperatives run by the workers.
