Instaurarea şi organizarea regimului lui Hugo Chávez în Venezuela (1998-2000)
THE ESTABLISHMENT AND THE ORGANIZING PERIOD OF HUGO CHÁVEZ REGIME IN VENEZUELA (1998-2000)

Summary/Abstract: Hugo Chávez is one of the most renowned leaders of Latin America, in this article we will analyze the pattern of his political way to power, which was the political background of Venezuela in those times, and how did he managed to change people’s perception about himself, a former military officer imprisoned in 1992 for a failed coup d'état. He was the most widely supported candidate and won the 1998 presidential elections and was sworn as president of Venezuela. He stated in those moments that the constitution of his country must be changed because his political reforms which were presented in his wining electoral platform are against current constitution and those values presented in it. The new constitution was adopted in 1999 and soon after that a new presidential elections were set, he won the 2000 elections and that was the moment when he started to implement radical political and economical reforms which were not very well accepted by foreign powers with high economical influence in South America.

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