Hugo Chavez Quotes
Venezuela has changed forever.
Chávez, Hugo. Victory Speech, Miraflores Palace, Caracas, Venezuela, 3 Dec. 2006.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Harding, not the most historically knowledgeable of American Presidents, had forgotten the revolutionary origin of the United States or its drastically experimental nature. It was the fear of Communism and the Russian Revolution that gave revolution a bad name at the time.
The condition of most of Europe towards the end of WWII was dire. However, even then it was clear that since there were organized communists (partisans who fought the Nazis during the war) many of them would try and dominate the postwar politics in many counties. This was no surprise to American planners and policy makers.
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in April 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012.