Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias was born on July 29, 1954, the second of six children; Adam, Argenis, Hannibal, Adelis and Narcissus. His parents Elena Frias, a rural teacher, and Hugo de los Reyes Chavez, also a teacher and former governor of Barinas, decided to give Hugo and his brother Adam to his grandmother Rosa Inés, who raised them from childhood through adolescence in natal Sabaneta, Barinas State.

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Así fue la vida del presidente Hugo Chávez by Globovision