Youth of Hugo Chávez

The youth of Hugo Chávez describes the first 21 years (1954– 1975) of the life of current the president of Venezuela. Leader of the " Revolution Bolivarienne " , Hugo Chávez is known for its government social democrat, his action in favor of Latin-American integration, and its radical criticism of the Mondialisation néoliberale and of the foreign politics of the United States.

Born the July 28th 1954 in the town of Sabaneta, Chávez was high in a modest family in the area of the Llanos (plains), an area of the Orénoque which extends to the west from the Venezuela. Later, Chávez lived with his/her grandmother. It went to school in order to obtain its diploma of entry to the Academia Militar of Venezuela like Cadet. During its years with the Academy, Chávez started to join people of left and attended many popular leaders of Latin America such as for example Juan Velasco Alvarado or Omar Torrijos. It was during this period that it developed its critical opinion on the context socio-policy of South America. These influences carried out Chávez to associate as well elements, nationalist as socialist in a new political ideology which it called the " Bolivarisme ". All this weighed in the spirit of Chávez, and possibly in the organization of the Coup d'etat of 1992 seeking to reverse the government of Venezuela.

Family and ascent

Second wire of Hugo of los Reyes Chávez and Elena Frías de Chávez (born Frías), Chávez was born in the town of Sabaneta, in the State of Barinas the July 28th, 1954. Sabaneta is located in the lowlands of the Andes vénézuéliennes, close to the Andes cordillera in the west and the south. The parents of Chávez worked both as teachers in a local school. His/her father, Hugo Sr., had given up the school with the college. However, it obtained a qualification later enabling him to teach at the elementary school.

The Chávez family, of origin mainly Indian-native, Spanish and afro-vénézuélienne, has ancestors in the center of Venezuela, in the area of the Llanos. Chávez is the back grandson of the rebel Pedro Perez Delgado, more known under the name of " Maisanta ". Maisanta was a rebellious leader all his life. It supported an insurrection which, before its capture in 1922, led to dead at the same time former president vénézualien and a governor of State. The grounds belonging to the family of Maisanta are very wide and collectively, they are known under the name of Marquesena . After the insurrection, they were confiscated by the federal authorities. More than 80 years later, the same property will be expropriée by Chávez. Chávez evoked later the loss of these family grounds which would have had a central place in the accounts told by his/her paternal grandmother, Rosa. She would have said to him: “For me, Marquesena was the point of meeting of a great number of things”.

Childhood (1954– 1971)

Chávez grows in a made small house of sheets of palm trees and a beaten ground ground. Its family lived in a small village right at the exit of Sabaneta. Chávez and its brothers and sisters were pushed by their parents to regard their education as a loophole with their rural environment and in order to reach better lives in the more prosperous cities. The mother of Chávez would have wished that it become a catholic priest, it was useful then like Enfant of chorus during one year. One of its obligations consisted to clean and polish statuettes representing the saints and Jesus. Chávez then started to develop an aversion with the representation in figurine of Jesus. Chávez was offended, in particular, of the portrait which its church made of Jesus, the representative like an idiot, whereas Chávez, it, regarded it as a “rebel”. That pushed Chávez to be wary of the religious hierarchies throughout its life.

Later, his/her parents sent Chávez like his older brother, Adán to live in their paternal grandmother, Rosa Inés Chávez, which lived in Sabaneta. So Chávez tied a stronger relation with his/her grandmother than with her own mother. Later, the parents of Chávez and his/her other brothers and sisters moved into a house in the neighborhoods. Chávez tells the strange situation in which it was when his/her parents moved into another house that in which it lived in company of his paternal grandmother with Sabaneta:

Thus, Chávez and Adán remained in their grandmother, while being regularly in liaison with their parents. The majority of the children of the area in which it grows never did not follow an higher learning. However, Chávez proved being one of the exceptions. It started by attending the elementary school Julián Pino . At the same time, it continued its pastimes, the Peinture and the Chant. At the age of twelve and thirteen years, Chávez was a very thin boy with the abnormally large feet, and his/her comrades called it " Tribilin ", the Spanish name of the character of Disney, Nutcase. The evening after the school, Chávez worked as travelling merchant, selling caramelized fruit delicacies made by his/her grandmother.

Chávez remembered later to have developed a taste for nature. That came owing to the fact that its family was near the Guanare river. Over there, it was going to fish with his father. And the feastdays like Easter for example, its family organized picnics on the benches of the river. Chávez was particularly interested by the Baseball. One of its dreams of childhood was to become launcher for the team of the Giants of San Francisco, according to the traces of its hero of youth, the launcher Venezuelan, Isaías " Látigo" Chávez (not of bonds family between the two). When Látigo died at the 23 years age, the March 16th 1969 with Zulia, in the second most serious air crash of the history of Venezuela, Chávez was so sad that he refused to go to school during two days. Five years later, Chávez still wrote on Látigo in its diary. Chávez continued to play and like baseball throughout its life. Chávez also played baseball and softball with the team of the Criollitos of Venezuela , which played in the national championship of baseball of Venezuela, the Venezuelan National Baseball Championships in 1969.

He wrote also poems, stories and dramas.

As of his more young age, Hugo Chávez is interested in the life, with the ideology, like with the writings of Simón Bolívar. Bolívar is very respected at the same time with the Venezuela and in the remainder of the South America as a Révolution naire Venezuelan and member of the Armée with release. One remembers in particular him for his central role in the wars of independence of South America, the South American Wars off Independence . Indeed, as of its childhood, Chávez bound the key dates of its own life with the important birthdays related to the actions of Bolivar.

Later, Chávez settled in more a big city, Barinas, where he attended the college Daniel Florencio O' Leary School . During its years with the college, the best friends of Chávez were two brothers, the wire of Jose Ruiz, a Communist who had been imprisoned by the military government of Dictature of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. It is in the library of the Ruiz family that Chávez lute her first books on Communism and socialism. Later, at the 17 years age, Chávez joined the Armée vénézuélienne. He remembered later that he had committed himself in order to being able to play in the league of baseball of the army. Later, it is registered as a junior with the Venezuelan Academy off Military Sciences - the academy vénézuélienne by military sciences.

Life of junior (1971– 1975)

Whereas he studied with the academy, Chávez also read books of history and discussed with his/her comrades. Between 1971 and 1973, a group of Panamanian juniors came in the military academy where Chávez studied. In their contact, Chávez initially was interested in the Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos, like with the recent revolution of the left in Panama. The curiosity of Chávez was poked by the efforts of Torrijos intended to take again the control of the Canal zone of Panamá as well as Canal of Panamá itself, hands of its owner the government of the the United States. Thereafter, Chávez regarded Torrijos as a model of leader.

In 1974, Chávez, accompanied by approximately a dozen other juniors and soldiers, all young people, went to Ayacucho, the Peru in order to commemorate the 150e birthday of the battle of Ayacucho. Over there, they were personally accommodated by Juan Velasco Alvarado, radical left as well as the Peruvian president of the period of 1968 to 1975. Velasco gave them with each one an edition of miniature pocket of Revolución Nacional Peruana ( the Peruvian national Revolution ). The juniors noticed the proximity of the reports/ratios of Velasco with at the same time the Peruvian people and the Peruvian military infantry. Chávez stuck to this book and would have at the same time studied its contents as it would constantly have carried it on him. However, Chávez lost the book after its arrest at the time of the Coup d'etat of 1992 in Venezuela. Twenty-five years later, Chávez then president, ordered the printing works of million copies of the news Constitution of Venezuela of his government, in the shape of a blue miniature booklet, in honor with the gift of Velasco.

During its years with the academy, Chávez and its various assistants developed left doctrines of - nationalist that they called the " Bolivarianisme". Although largely inspired by the ideals of Simón Bolívar, this philosophy was also influenced in the writings of the historian Marxiste Federico Brito Figueroa. Other contributions came from the opinions of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, and Che Guevara - all being socialist and communist South American representatives. Nevertheless, Simón Bolívar, Simón Rodríguez (the companion and tutor of Bolívar), and Ezequiel Zamora (a country leader combatant in support for the poor not ground owners) were of central importance for Chávez. All units, these influences were the key of the formation of its political philosophy and its style of governorship.

During its studies with the military academy, Chávez generally avoided any political discussion with its family, especially at the time of her stays on vacation. It particularly felt reluctant the political discussions with his father, a member of COPEI (a political party Démocrate-chrétien. Indeed, his/her father obtained a position of director of the Education of Barinas under government COPEI of Luis Herrera Campins. Nevertheless, Chávez appreciated this kind of discussions when they were held with the residence of the Ruiz family to which it returned visit regularly. During a few months, during the year 1974, Chávez a diary held. Inside, it paid great attention to the use of its Spanish. Chávez expressed an political orientation gauchist there, writing his aversion for the politics foreign of the United States like for the lack of national identity or cultural of Venezuela. For example, he noticed that such an amount of the national sport (baseball) that the popular music of Venezuela came finally both from North America.

Chávez was regarded as a provinciano (“provincial”), implying a backwardness compared to the social favors of the urban life. At first sight, Chávez was regarded as an at the same time polished and timid person. However, once graduate, had animated a beauty contest and was in charge of his personal program of radio, rather obscure. Young man, Chávez had two boyfriends, who were considered dull by the other students. Chávez, also was in general considered him rather insipid, and the girls were interested by his/her two better friends, the Ruiz brothers, than by Chávez itself. Chávez had its share of social nuisances. For example, when an young woman whom he considered attracting rejected it, he was going to find a head of ass rotted on the roadside and left it opposite its door. Later, Chávez was another boyfriend, Herma Marksman, which helped it to put a final key at the thesis that it was to complete in order to obtain its diploma. After its marriage with Chávez Nancy Colmenares at the 23 years age, Chávez misled it with Marksman. Its relation with Marksman lasted nine years.

Chávez was graduate the eighth of its class the July 5th, 1975 as a second lieutenant with a military diploma in arts and sciences. After having received the saber of order of the hands of the president Carlos Andrés Pérez in person during the annual procession, Chávez entered the military service officially.

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