I can see why the poor Venezuelans liked Chavez!

Rich people sure do hate it when the masses take away their power.

I disagree, I thought the video was quite sympathetic towards Chavez. Whether you agree with him or not the one thing we can all agree on is that he was a man who excited peoples passions.

El Presidente reduced poverty by 50%, severe poverty by 70% and created a liveable society for the poor and working classes. Something that had not existed in Venezuela before.

if your 16 how could you remember venezuela before chavez?

For an intelligent species we sure seem to have a hard time learning that socialism doesn't work. How many more are going to die worldwide in attempts to create utopia? How many times does this lesson need to be learned? Yes, we need to lift people out of poverty. No socialism won't do it.

If my family had been in the U.S. it would have been MUCH simpler to get out of poverty. In our case EDUCATION played the biggest role, my father graduated from a free university. Opportunities have nothing to do with anything in Venezuela. Opportunities are there for those willing to take them, but most of the people are looking for the easy way, the shortcut to riches. My grandma came to Venezuela alone with 5 kids after the war. Lazy people are lazy, and like everything for free... period.

What's the song at 13:34

Implying that Chávez DID turn Venezuela into that? Well, I thought I was discussing this with a serious person. Go read, about social, economical, and political reasons for crime. Then, and only then, we can discuss.

He loved his country and his people but I didn't like his politics.

I hope Hugo was able to take the two billion he had with him since he never wanted to share any of it with the poor.

I am a very proud and a very very devout muslim,thanks to God but I always loved this deceased President of Venuzuela.A very courageous bloke who did not bow to his enemies under any cirmumstances unlike the leaders of many many countries in the world.Evil powereful leaders of the world are worst than any dictators of the past and present.Please do not address me directly in any manner or fashion regardless of what you think of anoyone.Thanks

Where is all this singing and dancing now?

ok

Capitalism is inhumane? In Western Europe, before the development of capitalism in the late 1700s, life for many Western Europeans was similar to life for nearly everyone else in the world at the time. Merely surviving was an immense struggle, and, on average, people were not expected to live beyond the age of 30. I believe in western civilization, free speech, free press, rational enquiry, human rights, civil liberties, liberal democracy, and a secular state. If you don't, move to Venezuela.

I have lived in Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica, Venezuela and I would recommend Guatemala if you have a chance. I might be wrong, since I haven't been there in a few years, but the jungle is quite overwhelming, peaceful and immense. I like to visit archeological sites wherever I go and I made a road trip from McAllen to Cancun, and stopped in every pyramid I found along the way. Never trust anyone more than you should or less than they deserve, keep money and valuables out of sight. Cheers.

Simplifying: for the first time ever, wealth is being shared in Latin America and extreme inequality, slowly, tends to disappear. The rich rule the midia. The rich could always afford a car. But for the first time, the mailman, the butcher and the cashier can also afford a car. The traffic is worst than ever, there's a lot of Volkswagens blocking the BMW and, of course, there must be someone to blame.

Mierda no encuentro una buena biografía de Hugo Chávez en en español Qué tienen haciéndole publicidad en ingles ????

Who was the American commentator? Was he a US government official or like an academic or something?

Now 2017 stores are running out of everything and are clothing one by one .

Take from the rich what they have taken from the poor AND GIVE IT BACK.

Oh wait..you are that original poster. Now you confuse me; are you for or against socialist ideals (in part or full..not suggesting anyone need be an absolutist) and if pro, then why do you hope socialism dies with him..curious..or did I miss your point completely? I do not disagree with the point your history teacher made, I quite agree with it.

The American diplomat reminds me of the 'Administrator' in Half-Life.

wait can you please explain because I know the situation in Venezuela is horrible but Americans don't like the Chavez mostly because he stopped oil trade with them and he's friends with the enemies of the U.S but in terms of being a human being he never oppressed his people or murdered them. Only censored the media, but that was after they started getting involved in his personal life and the media is mostly run by his opponents.

15:08 wow sad, I'm sure he did something about it

What are you talking about? I'm venezuelan and you should check your source and your information before sharing it just like that. I mean, of course there's still poverty but not like 15 years ago. Not at all.

"The revolution will not be televised" is a MUST WATCH doc about the failed American coup of Venezuela. RIP CHAVEZ

through the video, the media criticizes him freely, the opposition can go on the street and protest without being scared of prosecution and people collect signatures against him. Calling him a dictator, especially when he's been elected consecutively is a bit farfetched isn't it?

This documentary has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt who was the good and the evil in this situation.. If you think US Imperialism is the good guy here, and the oligarchs in Venezuela, then you probly don't understand why Chavez is the good guy, but he is. History is on his side.

9:36 Thought he was getting a lil' somethin' for a sec.

An observation made by the US Labour and Human Rights lawyer, Dan Kovalik, made struck home with me. Hugo's supporters are disproportionally afro or indigenous Venezuelan, because they have been the oppressed and voiceless of his compatriots.

Awesome Video!

I wouldn't know if cancer sucks... my dad would. As I said, he did not return the land to the peasants, he "encouraged them to seize the land from the previous owner". He couldn't "return" the land to peasants since it wasn't theirs to begin with. He bought them (and their vote) with the promise of the land and then forgot about them. He was just a vengeful dictator, who believed those who worked hard didn't deserve what they worked for. My grandmother came to Venezuela escaping from a war...

They are obviously two different countries, but we call what hugo was doing the invisible hand in this country.

So what did the USSR, China and, Cuba have?

and yet you are afraid to show your photo

I don't know where your information comes from but my recollection of Chavez' funeral was that masses of people were crying in the streets.

Get used to the fact that Venezuela's revolution proceed the ''Arab Spring'' ! Dont ask me, ask your people. Not your friends , your people !!!!

so did his policies really work? I would like to find out unbias info on this.

sure he "resisted"it so much, he had no problem dying a Billionaire while never sharing any of it with the poor.

I am so surprised at how ignorant many people are of who Chavez really was. Please, watch the following video in youtube: The War On Democracy.I promise you, you will never look at the US or Chavez in the same light again.

SO according to this documentary he was bound to exit the throne either way? why I find it hard to fathom since, according to what I watched, he created deep divisions between the rich and the poor. In that case he would forever have the majority support come rain come shine. A bit contradictory, right?With all said and don, the key difference is to whom the army pays allegiance, anything else is just mere details.

Great man respect from Morocco

Increíble la forma de Manipular la información!

My post was not aimed at defending the US.

I didn't mean any disrespect, I'm sorry you misinterpreted my words and thought I was referring to you. I meant I cannot take half-truths as information or I would pay dearly with an uneducated guess at what the reality is. There's no better way for you to evaluate the "net" value of the late president unless you come to Venezuela. Everything else is hear-say... I have the benefit of having a US dollar salary, and the devaluations are beneficial for me, on the short term. I keep my position.

lets start with ur first sentenced: how is socialism demonized? I live in europe and every person i've ever talked to, told me that socialism isnt such a bad idea after all. Even my history teacher said "well all these socialist leaders werent real socialists they were just despotes and the socialist idea itself is actually really great". Nowhere in my surrounding has socialism been demonized. I grew up with the usa being the bad guys and capitalism being a corrupt system.

It happened quickly under Hitler but Mao and Stalin took a while. Have you considered that perhaps we are merely witnessing the beginning stages, and the switch is to come later? It depends on the leader, but all leaders are human, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Sadly the default for YOU is "unknown", in my case I know what I live. It's always easy to defend something from afar :) You're a remote control socialist, you like watching socialism on TV, but would probably be outraged if you had to go to 4 different stores to TRY to find rice, with the most probable outcome being that you return home empty-handed. Being equal is great, I support that, I would like to be equally safe in the street, not equally prone to getting killed over a cheap cellphone.

I think you missed my point. I grew up in Europe too...I'm saying that here in the USA (as 'only' Americans proclaim) is where socialism is referenced as such a negative, I dont suggest that it is at all. I grew up with much of its benefits, although not rich and without luxuries I wasnt in fear of being homeless, without medical care or without food. I'm not personally demonizing socialism, my statement was a response to another posters statement that he hopes socialism dies with Chavez.

Why were there so many poor in a supposedly rich country though?

The problem in third world countries is totally differrent. Many people work WAY over what they should and what did they get paid? A miserable wage.... Venezuelans did know very well what Chavez was about, even those that hated him. They hated him because ha cared for the poor. And yes Slovakia does have a central bank and no our politics here is not yet corrupted so much as is in US that banks are openly supporting presidential candidated through donations. Here Gov and banks are teeth to teeth

Dependence does NOT foster self-esteem. Period. Of course people lose motivation when their needs are met. How would their instinct for meeting their needs be exercised otherwise? If you're paid the same regardless of the job and how well you perform it, people lose motivation. This is very, very, VERY simple. You must have poor visualization skills to not see it. You're out huh? I'm clearly not trolling here, I'm trying to have a debate. You're just copping out.

Actually it was about oil, not because he was important to some dirt-poor natives in the jungle somewhere.

I travelled to venezuela on a game. I was a missionary I killed all factions there

i think you're mixing up some facts... Germany was ally with the Japan Empire during ww2 but never with Russia... Russia was an ally of the united states... and if i forgot the nanking massacre you also did on korea, vietnam, south america, 911, libia and syria...

I would've loved for the lady to spit out hard core facts to him instead of "because your a friend of fidels"

You are yelling at stones. They are there to waste your energy; like tempters from Satan. But please know that some of us pale-faces cried when Hugo died. :)

Its easy to say he was successful when you go from 100% inflation to 22% inflation, However, Average Inflation in 2009 in Latin America was 6.1 %, which is now most likely higher. Venezuela still has the highest rate of inflation in all of Latin America, where as it should have the least because of its resources.

He is not Lenin.He is not Castro.He is not Che.But he was the Lenin,Castro and Che of Venezuela.

This bloke is great,why do people, middle and upper class always think that they should get more than the working class who generally work that much harder and, this is not communism,it's just a fact that many middle and upper class feel that they have this right to always be within this comfort zone

i didn't say I wasn't going to read it because it was left-wing, that's your assumption... I didin't read it because it's a pamphlet. I read plenty left wing newspapers, just not propaganda pamphlets. Find a reliable source, it's all I need. You can't base "good decision making" on what you "read"... period. "Based on what I've read, he's been a net benefit."

you hit the nail on the head. I do not advocate the present assault on oil-bearing nations by NATO-aligned nations which include Canada, Britain, France, Australia to name a few. Because I live here doesnt mean I support corporate dictatorship and exploitation. I recommend viewing the two minute cartoon video narrated by John Perkins, former IMF/World Bank economic hit-man titled 'How the World Works'.

It's becuase I didn't allow Hugo to bamboozle me the way he did with you. It's not my fault Hugo never walked the walk and refuse to share a single penny of his two billion he had with the poor.

Have you been to Venezuela before Chavez was president??

You are absolutely right! Please, just don't make the mistake of characterizing the US based on our leaders and representatives who have clearly been corrupted by money and power. People, deep down, have a common goal and Chavez knew that most of all.

When Chávez was elected in 1999 on an anti-corruption platform, Venezuela ranked 45th in corruption world-wide out 190 countries according to Transparency International, an NGO based in Berlin that tracks corruption. Today it ranks 177th. So on this metric, Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution is an utter failure. And for a country that sits on top of the world's largest proven reserves of hydrocarbons, Venezuela is now seriously close to default on its international debt. It imports 70 percent of its food. In October 2014, Venezuela was forced to import gasoline to satisfy internal demand. Its gas prices are the lowest in the world at one US cent per liter or a nickel per gallon. The price of gas was last raised in 1989. No government since has dared touch this for when Carlos Andrés Pérez did so in 1989 it led to a coup attempt. Such a low price of gas, however, leads to speculative arbitrage and much gas is siphoned off illegally to Curaçao, Trinidad, Guyana and Colombia. It gets worse. Because Venezuela has a three-tiered forex regime, international companies can't repatriate earnings back to their home countries so few companies are willing to invest in Venezuela. The airline industry has been hit hard by the exchange rate mechanism so now Caracas is slowly being left without connections to the outside world. Airlines won't accept cash for tickets and apart from Venezuelan airlines, tickets have to be bought online, paid for in dollars and in the country of origin of each airline. Air Canada stopped flying. Alitalia ditto. TAME did as well but then Maduro secured an agreement and a three times a week Quito to Caracas flights were resumed. American Airlines cut its weekly flights from 48 to 7. Avianca, the Colombian airline, ended all flights to Venezuela except Caracas and cut those from 3x daily to just once. The Venezuelan government owes the 24 international airlines that once served Venezuela over $4 BILLION USD. Not a misprint. While Argentina is now in a technical default due to a lawsuit with vulture funds, Argentina actually has cash to meet its obligations. Venezuela doesn't. But there is one really big difference between Venezuela and Argentina. That second sentence in the above paragraph. Argentina can feed itself, cloth itself, supply its own gasoline. Venezuela can't do any of these things. So at the moment, Venezuela is trying to sell CITGO, its US based refinery and distribution system. But no buyer is biting. Why? Because why buy for a dollar today what can be bought for pennies tomorrow. It is difficult to foresee how all this plays out. Venezuela is likely to become a pariah state and failed state where increased repression becomes the only way to sustain an unsustainable regime in power. The proverbial shit will hit the fan and for a country that can't keep toilet paper on its shelves, that is quite the problem.

My full respect! I miss you comrade hugo!

Have you been in Cuba? empty stores and food rations are consequence of the blockade but health care and education are high standard quality services and far from expensive.Empty stores? Thank God! Full stores?what for? to get sick with Monsanto's GMOs? to get stupid with Ipods? Possesion of WMD were never confirmed by us in Cuba, as neither they did in Irak and if the point is about spreading their beliefs they were just trying to keep up against the global imperialism which is the worst of all

you learn a lot about this man but also you learn abou the people

When I die, I will ask God if I can meet Hugo Chavez. I want to tell him how much I looked up to him and how much hope he gave me.

Man of the people. By definition. Hence why the US tried to get him out through coups at least half a dozen times in 13 years

The US didn't take France back by themselves they were supported by a variety of forces and they on there own didn't take ALL the beaches by themselves and i'm not saying the US didn't have a big influence on the victory of WW2 but the weren't a one man army.

Couldn't Castro supply him with little red beanies instead of just covering the insignia an American Boy Scout beret?!

Although the quality of life went up for the poor, it is also easy to argue that, in fact, it also went down. Under Chavez, murder rates have escalated to be 5 highest in the world. In terms of the economy, the economy has always been weak in Venezuela, even before the 2002 coup. Inflation was around 100% before Chavez, and now it is around 22%, which is still the highest inflation rate in the world. Higher oil prices did nothing to Venezuela, as Venezuela is a member of OPEC.

To some observers he wasn't communist enough like Castro.

where r u from AGAIN IN VENEZUELA

it takes a undexcisive tone to mask the fact that the whole video 's underlying message ....is that ...to understand and analyze this person completely and then see him through a US citizen's eyes..... the starting doesnot matter my friend...touwards the middle and end it was full of public opinions against him and liberal middle class and well off people not wanting him.....why does the video not include a single clip of his anti us stance?.. that he refuses oil to us?..why not do that at all?!

despite his misgivings, he was an angel compared to the U.S. admin and it's foreign policy.

This is not recent.

Since 1960 Cuba is dealing with terrorism... united states called it "embargo" but it's in fact a savage boycott and a proper blockade. What would you say about media if the us government controls the whole thing? i have nothing to say about Iran but it is a brave country! Otherwise can you say something about bullying, school shootings, racism, police crimes, economic crisis, 911? what about war crimes in Irak? Libia, Syria? what about Vietnam or nuking both hiroshima and nagasaki back then?

You have no idea, and you have not suffered because of this man. He spent 14 years destroying one of the richest countries on earth. You experience what it is for a family to be broken, to suffer loss and have 14 years of a man insulting rigth and forth. Don´t fucking dare patronize me!

It's easy to say that when you more than likely have never lived in a communist state.

I see why he was loved, and hated. But you must agree, his heart was in the right place. What I don't like is the false hope he brought forth and handing out land with out any competitive process and his lack of real economic plans. What I loved, he didn't bow down to banksters and the petrol dollar. He also wanted his gold back, like Mali... and look at Mali now. Little secret, the gold is long gone. And most of it is Tungsten. Google "Gold Shuffle". It's not all there.

The way they were describing Hugo sounded eerily familiar to Barack Obama , even the thing about his approval ratings dropping. Too bad our "president" isn't dead too. Now Venezuela is gonna be America's bitch now that Hugo's gone. He knows we're slimy to do business with

Chavez was responsible for the most Censorship in Venezuelan history. So you are wrong about him not silencing political dissidents.

You're no idiot, and even less a Conservative (Republican). You've been paying attention. Bravo!, and thank you for articulating so well what brainwashed North Americans so purposely refuse to see.

28:30 I love how he handles his critics.

because he had the balls to stand up to the West..my guess

Why do you think he was crazy? Porque dices que estaba loco?

Venezuela advancing in the social, political, economical, and moral... Right Depends on your social status

Charismatic and generous to the poor like Moammar Khaddafi o_o

Why is there so much bias in the mainstream media... What if people actually like to be taken care of by the government... Isn't it governments ONLY busines. Or are the politicians sopoased to care about other countries more than their own.... but still be on corporate bill in their own country. Can PATRIOTISAM be allowed to non murica ?

Chavez has not died, he is multiplied in millions around the world who are willing to stand up to defend social human rights, now and forever, individually and collectivelly, like good and free healthcare,good nutrition,good and free education,asistance and pensions for vulnerable population,political freedoms,religious freedoms,gender freedoms,expression freedoms,economic freedoms,property freedoms,equity and equality.I have proof to back any argument you throw.

How about populist dictator?

Guess what, same has been true in the US for the past decade.

Just checked out the beginning. It's odd because here they do it to drown out Chavez's voice, but Cubans bang on pots and pans as a celebration.

i wish one day the whole world lights a cannabis joint @ the same time-THEN THERE WOULD BE WORLD PEACE

Auto crisis and banking bail out? where have you been?

If he doesn't has a penny on his name than he is a real hero if not then he is a bad man.