December 6, 1998: Commander Chávez was elected president of Venezuela for the first time
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Published at: 06/12/2024 08:14 AM
On December 6, 1998, the Venezuelan people made the decision that would change the course of history in the country, in the region and in the entire world. They elected Commander Hugo Chávez as president of the Republic, who offered a project of profound changes where the most vulnerable would be the most favored, a project that he began to execute from his first day in power, it was the Bolivarian Revolution.
The battle was to end the capitalist model that had Venezuela mired in serious problems of social and economic inequality, whose power was controlled by elites at the expense of the suffering of the majority. Chávez brought Socialism of the 21st century, with which he completely overturned that divergence, giving power to the people and making the country's wealth truly distributed among all Venezuelans.
That day, the Commander won an overwhelming victory with the V Republic Movement (MVR), winning 56.2% of the votes, the second highest percentage in Venezuelan history in four decades.
With Chávez, the people rule! With that slogan and with the proposal of a Constituent Assembly, Chávez began to tour the country. Their meetings were increasingly popular. Red berets and the national tricolor stood out in the river of people.
26 years after Chávez's first electoral victory, we see resistance against neoliberal policies and cruel repression, similar to that used in the Caracazo, multiply in Our America. As then, the so-called democracies show a fierce and ruthless face, but the peoples woke up and have no plan to sleep until they are completely free.
Mazo News Team