Venezuelan Christians - Venezuelan Catholics, Venezuelan Christian Socialists, Hugo Venezuelan Catholics, Venezuelan Christian Socialists, Hugo Chvez, Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez Chvez, Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras (Spanish pronunciation: born 28 July 1954) is the President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chvez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation. He is also a critic of neoliberalism, globalization, and United States foreign policy. A career military officer, Chvez founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a failed 1992 coup d'tat against former President Carlos Andrs Prez. Chvez was elected President in 1998 with a campaign centering on promises of aiding Venezuela's poor majority, and was reelected in 2000 and in 2006. Domestically, Chvez has maintained nationwide Bolivarian Missions, whose goals are to combat disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other social ills. Abroad, Chvez has acted against the Washington Consensus by supporting alternative models of economic development, and has advocated cooperation among the world's poor nations, especially those in Latin America. His political influence in South America partly due to his use of Venezuela's oil wealth and his adversarial relationship with the United States have given him a comparatively high geopolitical profile, leading Time magazine to include him among their list of the world's 100 most influential people in 2005 and 2006. Chvez was born on July 28, 1954 in Sabaneta, Barinas to schoolteachers Hugo de los Reyes Chvez and Elena Fras de Chvez. He is the younger brother of both Barinas governor Adn Chvez and Sabaneta mayor Anibal Jos Chvez Fras. The Chvez family is of mixed Amerindian, Afro-Venezuelan, and Spanish descent. Chvez was born in a mud hut near Sabaneta. Due to the Chvez family's impoverished condition... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=48874