Venezuelan politician (born 1954) who was President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. DS in Spanish, signed using his maternal surname, “H. Rafael Frías,” one page, 8.5 x 11.5, April 14, 1975. Report made by Chavez from the Venezuela Cadet Corps, in full (translate): "I am, along with another group of Alfereces, at the headquarters of the Bolivarian Society of Venezuela, last Saturday 12 of the current, in order to witness a class of the Bolivarian Chair taught by Professor Luis Acosta Rodriguez to a group of teachers of the metropolitan area. The subject was 'Bolivar as Guerrero.' There the Bolivarian idea arose that the Armed Forces should be the support of the Institutions, and never take the reins of the Nation. At the end of the lecture, the teacher usually opens a parenthesis for the audience to ask the questions that have arisen throughout the class. I launched two questions, the second of which is what motivated this report. Said question was the following one: relating the affirmation made by Bolivar about the Armed Forces and its paper within the society, with the present situation in the world, in which it is observed a grown existence of military governments, I requested an opinion to the Professor about whether he justified the fact that men in uniform take the reins of a nation, at a critical moment, whether internally or externally. The professor gave me his opinion, but it seems that a minority sector of the audience, expressed by a single person, misinterpreted my words and gave him a meaning that I did not want to do at any time, and I am sure that a person from a sufficiently capable intellectual level would be impossible to give. I consider it necessary for superiority to know the fact, in order to avoid novel falsehoods that may come through people who are not very clear about the authentic case." In very good condition, with overall creasing, light stains, two file holes to the left edge, and a minor slit of paper loss to the left edge.Format: DS