Hugo Chavez Research Paper

A very powerful and influential man to the country of Venezuela is a name named Hugo Chavez. He may be dead but he will never be forgotten. Chavez did a lot of good and bad things for his country. Although Chavez was a labled as many things, the one word that describes him best is leader. He was a leader during his childhood, military career, family life, and his presidency. Chavez was born in July 28, 1954. He grew up in the small southwestern town in the plains of Venezuela called, Sabaneta. He was the second of six surviving children, which all happen to be boys. As school teachers, his parents could not financially support all of their children, so him and his eldest brother, Adan lived with their grandmother, Rosa Ines Chavez. His grandmother was the very first person to instill him the love for history and politics. As a teenager, Chavez was heavily influenced by a local historian named, Jose Esteban Ruiz Guevara. Guevara introduced him to Karl Marx, the German philosopher who was one of the fathers of communism. He also introduced him to Simon Bolivar, the South American independence hero. He was interested in baseball. His childhood dream was to become a pitcher for the San Francisco …show more content…
He was not good enough to play baseball professionally so he continued his studies. After he graduated near the bottom of his class in 1975, he started out as a second lieutenant in the army. His first assignment was to capture the remaining leftist guerrillas, but as he pursued the insurgents he began to empathize with them. By 1977 he was ready to leave the army when he found out his eldest brother Adan was secretly working with the insurgents. He then arranged to meet with the head of the Venezuelan Revolution Party, Douglas Bravo. Bravo inspired Chavez, which made him stay in the army. Later he essentially started a life as a politician when he gave his, por ahora speech on national