Chavez Funeral

Venezuelans said goodbye to President Hugo Chavez this afternoon. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG) CORNISH: The country staged an elaborate funeral for Chavez, who was known the world over for challenging the ...

Chavez's opposition to Zionism and close relations with Iran led to accusations of antisemitism. [404][405] Such claims were made by the Venezuelan Jewish community at a World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Jerusalem, after Venezuela's oldest synagogue was vandalised by armed men. [406]

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Hugo Chavez was president of Venezuela (1999–2013) who styled himself as the leader of the socialist Bolivarian Revolution.

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Cesar Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books, but scholars and activists are asking why "a community is only allowed to have one figure."

Cesar Chavez abuse allegations spur a movement to disavow the man ...

Cesar Chavez Boulevard. Ms. Murguia and another woman, Debra Rojas, say that Mr. Chavez sexually abused them for years when they were girls, from around 1972 to 1977.

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for ...

We will see a push for the renaming of the dozens of schools, parks and streets that bear Chavez’s name across the country and even the rebranding of Cesar Chavez Day, a California state...

And just like that, the Cesar Chavez myth is punctured. What’s next?

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This timeline offers a visual account of Chavez’s rise to power and the impact of his presidency.

In an attempt to halt the advance of the progressive agenda led by Chavez, the country’s conservative opposition called for such a referendum to take place on 15 August 2004.