Hugo Chavez

About him

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was born on July 28, 1954 into a working class catholic family in a rural village named Sabaneta.  He lived a hard childhood were he experienced humility, poverty, pain and sometimes he was left with nothing to eat. He calls it ’’ the injustices of the world’’.  He was a military officer and was dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system. Therefore in 1992 he attempts a coup d’état against the democratic action government of President Carlos Andres Perez failure.  Two years later when he was removed from prison, he founded a social democratic political party named the Fifth Republic Movement  and was elected President of Venezuela in 1998. In 2007 he renamed it the United Socialist Party.

Till that date he’s been the only president in Venezuela. He was strongly allied with the communist government such as Fidel Castro’s in Cuba or Evo Morales in Bolivia. On March 5^th of 2013 he died and now Venezuela found themselves in charge of his Vice – President Nicolas Maduro.  There’s no decision yet if he is going to be the next governor or there is going to be a change.

(GABRIELA BRAIN)

 

Vice President Nicolas Maduro is now President of Venezuela until the upcoming elections

After the death of the president Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro took power and reclaimed his position as President of Venezuela. According to the country’s constitution, if the president is elected but dies after the elections, the vice president would become his successor. In this case, they are actually violating the constitution because Chavez died before the elections so the actual president should be Diosdado Cabello. The constitution also says that elections are called within 30 days. Maduro was requested by Chavez to be the interim president to wait until the elections and so the people would decide to choose between Capriles and Cabello. Capriles said that Maduro was using Chavez funeral to win votes for the elections. But the situation is not simple, the Science and Technology minister Jorge Arreaza (Chavez`s son-in-law) has been named as vice president. He was recently updating the people and the press about Chavez`s condition. The opposition says that they are violating the constitution by “swearing-in”. Currently Diosdado Cabello is the head of the National Assembly, so they are indignant. The place where Chavez was being displayed was in the military academy, which also concerned the opposition because they think that the army shouldn’t be playing roles. Politicians from all around the world expressed their condolences by visiting Venezuela; the firsts presidents who travelled where the presidents from Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia, etc.

Paula van Ginhoven

 

Opposition leader Henrique Capriles to challenge Nicolas Maduro

Henrique Capriles, 40 year-old who lost against Hugo Chavez on the past elections on October 2012, challenged Nicolas Maduro 50 year-old Chavista in the April 14 elections.
Nicolas Maduro was named after Hugo Chavez as his favoured successor as well as Vice President of his political party. He said he was running for presidancy as a way of being loyal to Hugo Chavez and not for personal ambition.

In his speech, Henrique Capriles said referring to Maduro –

 “Nicolas,” he said, speaking directly to Maduro, “I am not going to leave you an open road, friend. You will have to defeat me with votes. I am going to fight with these hands. I’ll fight for each vote.”

Henrique Capriles also accused the governing PSUV party (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela) of manipulating the death of Hugo Chavez.

The aim for Capriles political party campaign is for Venezuela to move forward. This is his second time running for presidency.

Nicolas Maduro              Henrique Capriles

(ISABELLA RIVERA)

Political situation

Elections are between Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles. However, things can change until april 14^th. Henrique Capriles goals consist on moving away from relations with Iran, promoting education and mixing socialism with a market system.These thing will make Venezuela emerge as a better country.
Global oil markets are steady after the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
 In economic  views Venezuela is in a steady right now until a new president is elected in the elections of the 14th of april.

With Chavez dead, Raul Castro claims to have lost his best friend.
Chavez death made cuban president Raul Castro worried and he hopes that Nicolas Maduro will win the elections as well as expects him to continue his Cuban policies for the immediate future.

(Tais Ferreyros)