13 Quotes & Sayings By Hugo Chavez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; Spanish: [xaviˈes ˈkavese]; born 19 December 1954) is a Venezuelan politician who currently serves as the President of Venezuela since 1999. He was also served as the President of Venezuela between 1998 and 1999 and again from October 2013 to April 2014, and before that he served as the president of the United States of Venezuela from 1992 to 1998. Chávez became the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement on February 14, 1992, following the resignation of four-term president Rafael Caldera. Upon becoming President, Chávez was granted emergency powers by the National Assembly, which created what he called a "Bolivarian Revolutionary Command". Chávez initially governed using executive decree, but after the election of governors in December 1998 he began to govern through his new party's caucus in the National Assembly Read more

In 1999, he was re-elected for another six-year term after promising social reforms. However, his presidency was marked by controversies surrounding allegations of corruption and human rights violations by government security forces following opposition protests. On October 13, 2013, Hugo Chávez died at age 58 after a two-year battle with cancer.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro succeeded him as president.

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Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends. Hugo Chavez
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We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development. Hugo Chavez
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Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy. Hugo Chavez
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I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace. Hugo Chavez
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Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. Hugo Chavez
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Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary. Hugo Chavez
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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy. Hugo Chavez
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I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion. Hugo Chavez
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It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox; really, it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire. Hugo Chavez
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I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man. Hugo Chavez
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I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people. Hugo Chavez
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We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way! Hugo Chavez