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President of Venezuela from to

For other people named Hugo Chávez, see Hugo Chávez (disambiguation).

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías^[b] (; Spanish:[]^ⓘ; 28 July &#;– 5 March ) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from until his death in , except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in until , when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until

Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer.

After becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system based on the Puntofijo Pact,^[1] he founded the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement (MBR) in the early s. Chávez led the MBR in its unsuccessful coup d'état against the Democratic Action government of President Carlos A