Foreign Affairs

LATIN AMERICA: Death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez*

By Joseph Poprzeczny / March 30, 2013

Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), who died on March 5 — the 60th anniversary of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s death — made five bids to lead his country. The first, a failed 1992 coup d’état, led to his jailing. The plotters making this bid, dubbed Operation Zamora, called themselves the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 and claimed to be inspired by three 19th-century historical Venezuelans, Ezequiel Zamora, Simón Bolivar and Sim&o…

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