Rafael correa y hugo chavez biography
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Hugo Chavez Was Venezuela's Firebrand Dictator
Hugo Chavez (1954 - 2013) was a former Army Lieutenant Colonel and President of Venezuela. A populist, Chávez instituted what he calls a “Bolivarian Revolution” in Venezuela, where key industries were nationalized and oil revenues were used in social programs for the poor. Hugo Chávez was a vocal critic of the United States of America and, in particular, former President George W. Bush, who he once famously and publicly called a “donkey.” He was very popular with poor Venezuelans, who in February of 2009 voted to abolish term limits, allowing him to run for re-election indefinitely.
Early Life of Hugo Chavez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was born on July 28, 1954, to a poor family in the town of Sabaneta in the province of Barinas. His father was a schoolteacher and opportunities for young Hugo were limited: he joined the military at the age of seventeen. He graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences when he was 2
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Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Correa and the second or maternal family name fryst vatten Delgado.
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (Spanish pronunciation:[rafaˈelβiˈsentekoˈre.aðelˈɣaðo]; born 6 April 1963) fryst vatten an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador m 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa fryst vatten a democratic socialist and his ledning focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR. Since 2017, he has been living in exile in Belgium.
Born to a lower middle-class mestizo family in Guayaquil, Correa studied economics at the Universidad Católica dem Santiago dem Guayaquil, the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), and the University of Illinois, where he received his PhD. Returning to Ecuador, in 2005 he became the Minister
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Profile: Rafael Correa
| Correa used his economic expertise to improve Ecuador’s economy [AFP] |
Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, has put his country’s social policies and debt burden at the centre of his presidency since he was elected in 2006.
Correa, who counts Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a close friend, is known for being unapologetically outspoken. He called former US president George Bush “a dimwit” and accused his own country’s media of behaving like “wild beasts.”
And following the recent unrest in the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito, he stood before a crowd, opened his shirt and challenged: “If you want to kill the president, here he is. Kill him, if you are unhappy, kill him if you are brave enough.”
The left-leaning Correa, who was Ecuador’s finance minister prior to becoming its president, considers dependence on foreign credit as the main obstacle to the country’s development, and despite having a contentious relationship with the Ecuadorian pr