Hugo Chavez was the president of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013. He had an interesting way of running the country during his presidency. His political position or ideology could be best defined as Bolivarianism for many reasons. Bolivarianism can be described as a set of doctrines that was popular in South America. It is named after the famous liberator Simon Bolivar. Hugo Chavez’s ideology involved ideas from others he had come to admire. Of course one of those that he admired was Simon Bolivar. The ideas for his ideology all began at a young age when he fell in love with history (Jones 23). During this age Hugo Chavez would often times read about a general named Ezequiel Zamora whom his great great grandfather had served (Marcano, Tyszka 11). Ezequiel Zamora will become a major influence in his ideology later on in his life. Besides Zamora, Chavez would also read about many other theorists. Hugo Chavez not only lived in poverty but also witnessed how bad the poverty around him was (Jones 25-26). Chavez did not like this poverty and wanted to change that any way he could. As he grew up he continued reading about the different theorists and ideologies that they made up (Jones 40). So since a young age Chavez had always been a leftist. As mentioned earlier it continued throughout his life and it intensified during his days at the military academy (Wilpert 07) Eventually Chavez became the president and his political position progressed further left (Wilpert 07). In other words he rejected both far left ideologies such as communism or Marxism-Leninism and moderate ideologies such as social democracy or the third way. However Chavez was aware of these different ideologies but did not consider being part of it. Hugo Chavez instead began t... ... middle of paper ... ...t to the head (Venezuela Tuya, Ezequiel Zamora). Nonetheless the idea of equality is one of the major points in Hugo Chavez’s ideology. Hugo Chavez was able to borrow some of the ideas for his ideology from these three men. Most of his ideology came from Simon Bolivar, which is why Chavez’s ideology is categorized under Bolivaianism. However as was mentioned throughout the paper, Chavez love for education and the scholarships he created for students during his time as president came from the idea of Simon Rodriguez. His hero Ezequiel Zamora also influenced his ideology with the idea of equality. As stated previously through out his life time, Hugo Chavez had experience with poverty. The idea of equality would mean an end to poverty and everyone would be the same. With the ideas from all three men Chavez was able to implement his ideology of 21st century socialism.
Chávez’s leadership was based on an unshakable commitment to nonviolence, personal sacrifice and a strict work ethic. He emphasized the necessity of adhering to nonviolence, even when faced with violence from employers and growers, because he knew if the strikers used violence to further their goals, the growers and police would not hesitate to respond with even greater vehemence. Despite his commitment to nonviolence, many of the movement’s ‘enemies’, so to speak, made efforts to paint the mo...
It is crucial to have an awareness of the early beginnings of his life in order to understand Cesar Chavez’s development into becoming the celebrated leader he is known as today. One of the noteworthy aspects of his life is that he was not what some would consider a “natural-born” leader, meaning that he was not born into a family of great wealth or power. Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 near the town of Yuma, Arizona to a humble, hardworking Mexican immigrant family. His grandfather, Cesario Chavez, for whom he was named after, had worked hard to save enough money to be able to buy land in Arizona and raise his thirteen children, which included Cesar’s father. His father, Librado Chavez, grew up, got married, and opened up a couple of small businesses to help provide for his family and build a better life for his own children. According to biographical accounts about Cesar, this is when and where he began to learn and...
Everyone knows the name Fidel Castro, the revolutionary of Cuba. At the University of Havana in 1945 is where Fidel Castro began his long and treacherous journey as a radical nationalist. (Fidel: The Untold Story). He fought the infamous Flugencio Batista in the name of social justice until victory was won. He claimed to have fought for a democratic Cuba and a restoration of constitutional government and Cuban sovereignty, but he also stood for socialism and communist ideals. As Tim Padgett from Times Magazine on page 42 stated “Fidel imported old-world Marxism and its perverse notion that social justice is best delivered via the injustice of autocracy.” He supported everything the US and pro-democracy states despised and stood as a revolutionary
One such way Chavez counters the need for violence is by using ethos and pathos. By starting off with talking about the legend of Dr. King Chavez establishes himself as an expert on Civil Rights and how nonviolence is the course of action that people need to take. This creates the credibility, or ethos needed for Chavez to
The first action took by individual Cesar Chavez was after he helped organize the NFWA, a union that included mainly migrant workers. The NFWA and Chavez took committed action in their pursuit of equality. Chavez created the NFWA to represent the demands and needs of workers who were employees in grape picking areas. First off, farm workers felt that they didn’t have equal rights in the workplace because they were being paid less than what they thought they should have. For example, in an article it mentions specifically that “Farm workers demanded $1.25 per hour..” and their demands...
... was not the best person on Earth, nor was he the worst person as portrayed in the news. The same type of repetition and emphasizing could have been done to portray Hugo Chavez as the greatest leader in the world. If Hugo Chavez actions and objectives were more publicize, then his representation in the media would not have been a evil dictator who is against the U.S, rather it would be man who wanted to help the poor and tried to find peace within nations. Stone states that “the changes that occurred in Venezuela reflect the true spirit of the country’s people. Venezuela was ranked 7.6 on a scale of 1 to 10, in the level of democracy. They placed their democracy higher than any other Latin American.” Stone, Scott, Boykoff, Sheehan, and Dwyer represent Hugo Chavez as a victim of media corruption, but a fighter for still succeeding while being targeted.
With this realization of the inequalities, Fidel Castro began to strongly resent the current Cuban political leaders, American business owners in Cuba, and the upper classes. One of Fidel’s earliest and biggest inspirations for his political beliefs is Jose Marti. Jose Marti was a Cuban national hero and famous Latin American writer, many of his works centralized on Cuban independence from Spain. Jose Marti is one of the centralized characters for the reasoning behind Fidel being a Cuban Nationalist (Montaner, 2001). Another huge inspiration to Fidel Castro was Karl Marx. Karl Marx was a philosopher, political theorist, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Karl Marx is the founder of Marxism, a socioeconomic platform that supports classless, stateless, and communistic society (Murguia, 2011). Fidel also referred to Leninism. Leninism proposes a vanguard party and dictatorship to construct socialism. Fidel gains ultimate inspiration from these and is a Marxist-Leninist, a state of socialism, under a vanguard party, derived from the aware working class (Chambers Dictionary of World History,
Cesar Chavez was a civil rights leader who fought for farm workers to be respected and to not be treated like unimportant human beings (Fighting for.) Cesar Chavez did achieve his goal for farm workers after he started his movement. The goal was to be treated right. Cesar Chavez helped the farm workers through the UFW, the methods he used to fulfill his goals, and because of the many supporters he had,
The Mexican-American Cesar Chavez has changed the lives of many people. He was a kind man who devoted his life into helping people. He was a great union leader and labor organizer. Chavez’s parents taught him about the important ideas of hard work, the importance of education, and about respect. Cesar Chavez had a positive social impact on the United States during the twentieth century because he changed the lives of many farm laborers in America.
If Chavez would have stood for illegal immigration, I believe, he would have been twice as powerful. Thousands didn't join him in his cause because of his position on that. In spite of that, however, Chavez reached millions and changed the Mexican American society forever.
To sum up, Chavez was a man that fought for farmers to be traded better. One of his quotes was “The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people”. With this, we can conclude that no matter the kind of strike he had lead, it was always for the people. For example, when he was fighting about the pesticide in grapes or lettuces, the true fight he was leading was always a fight for the people in order to make their lives easier. Maybe his life was not easy as a child working at a young age or maybe it got more complicated as he got older and enter the unions to defend the people that worked on farms, but he got to be a hero among the farmers. More importantly, Chavez got the farmers the momentum they needed in order for them to fight for what they wanted, and in the end, accomplished to get the rights they deserved.
Cesar E. Chavez, born on March 31st , 1927 , was a Latino farm worker, labor leader, civil rights activist, and to this day a hero. Chavez was antiquated with prejudice and injustice from a young age. He would work part-time on the field with his parents, there he was exposed to the hardships and injustice of the farm work life. Chavez only achieved an eighth grade education due to his father getting injured. Since then he had to work full-time on the fields. Later in his life, Cesar Chavez joined the CSO, an outstanding Latino civil rights group. He became the CSO's national director; however his dream was to form an organization that protected and served migrant farm workers. He resigned in 1962. Chavez left the security of a regular paycheck and found The National Farm Workers Association (later changed to The United Farm Worker Union). He led the successful first farm worker union for more tha...
There are many reasons why Chavez became part of the movement, but the major reason was his childhood. It is noted that Cesar Chavez was one of five children born to Librado Chavez and Juana Estrada who were farmers. As a child in Arizona, he grew up nourished by the values of his family and his rural Mexican-American community. His mother taught him the importance of non-violence and self-sacrifice and his grandmother impressed upon his the values of the Catholic faith. And as a child, he experienced racial discrimination in school. (Griswold del Castillo) Chavez quit school after the eighth grade to work full-time in the fields. His grandfather had homesteaded some 112 acres that the family soon lost because of t...
...ntion to bring about a social revolution on behalf of the people. By sifting through articles, speeches, and letters, scholars find that Fidel is years away from Communism or Marxism-Leninism while in Mexico. Until Castro decided to carry his revolution into the Communist camp around the mid-1960s, he remained indignant when Communist charges were leveled against him. 18
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