On July 25 a postage stamp “Latin American Politicians. Continuation of the Series. Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias (1954–2013)”
Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias (1954–2013) was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until 2013 and the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela from 2007 till 2013.
In 1982 Chavez started the COMACATE underground organization together with his comrades-in-arms. He led an unsuccessful coup d’état on February 4, 1992 and had to surrender and was imprisoned. In 1994 Chavez was released by the President Rafael Caldera to found in the Fifth Republic Movement
At the parliamentary election in November 1998 Hugo Chavez was supported by the Patriotic Pole coalition together with various left and populist parties. Later that year Chavez won the presidential election with over 55% of the vote, however his coalition did not have the majority in the National Congress.
Chavez was often severely criticized, primarily by representatives of the high and middle-class society. His opponents accused him of neglecting electoral legislation, abusing human rights and political repressions, profligacy and financing the Cuban government. The called Chavez a “new-type dictator”. Despite all that, however, Chavez remained extremely popular and won presidential elections four times in a row, last time – in October 2012 with a mandate to govern the country till 2019.
The postage stamp depicts Hugo Chavez’s portrait against the waving flag of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
A FDC with cancellation (Moscow) has been prepared for the release.
Design: О. Ivanova.
Face value: 15 RUB.
Size of stamp: 30×42 mm, size of sheet: 170×146 mm.
Form of issue: a sheet of 15 (5x3) stamps.
Circulation: 420 thousand stamps (28 thousand sheets).
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