Profile: Venezuela's two leading presidential candidates
China Daily | Updated: 2012-10-08 08:10
HUGO CHAVEZ
The incumbent president was born on July 28, 1954, in Venezuela's Sabaneta state. He graduated from the country's military academy in 1975 with a master's degree in military science and art. He also studied politics at Simon Bolivar University from 1989 to 1990.
In February 1992, when he was a paratroop officer, Chavez led a failed coup against then president Carlos Andres Perez and was jailed until 1994.
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