The legacy of Hugo Chavez: part 1

THE charismatic leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, died last Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was only 58. The former army paratrooper first came to prominence as a leader of a failed coup in February 1992, to overthrow the government of president Carlos Andres Perez amid growing anger at economic austerity measures. He and a group of fellow military officers involved in the coup belonged to a secret movement — the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement, which was named after the South American independence leader Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), who was born and buried in Venezuela.