Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200

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The Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario 200 or MBR-200) was the political and social movement that current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez founded on July 24, 1983 — the 200th anniversary of South American liberator Simon Bolívar's birth. Hugo Chávez established the MBR-200, setting as its political goals the realization of Bolivar's ideals by means of a "Bolivarian Revolution". This name was also given by the commanders of the February 4, 1992 attempted coup to an organisation founded in 1983 in Venezuela. The name of the organisation reflects the fact that 1983 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Simón Bolívar, whose ideas strongly influenced the movement. The movement later evolved into the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR).

As Hugo Chávez himself explained in a speech at the University of Havana in Cuba on December 14, 1994;

"Nosotros tuvimos la osadía de fundar un movimiento dentro de las filas del ejército nacional de Venezuela, hastiados de tanta corrupción, y nos juramos dedicarle la vida a la construcción de un movimiento revolucionario y a la lucha revolucionaria en Venezuela, ahora, en el ámbito latinoamericano. Eso comenzamos a hacerlo el año bicentenario del nacimiento de Bolívar."

"We had the audacity to found a movement within the ranks of the Army of Venezuela. We were tired of the corruption, and we swore to dedicate our lives to the creation of a revolutionary movement and to the revolutionary struggle in Venezuela, straight away, within Latin America. We started doing this the year of the bicentenary of the birth of Bolívar".

[edit] External links

• The Political Process in Venezuela at the End of the 20th Century (in Spanish)
• Digital Rebel Radio (in Spanish)