A seminar on the life and career of late Venezuelan Commander-in-ChiefHugo Chavez Frias was held in Hanoi on July 28 on the occasion of his 61st birth anniversary.
Venezuelan AmbassadorJorge Rondon Uzcategui reminisced about the life and political career ofHugo Chavez, who founded the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement in hisyouth in the early 1980s and became President of Venezuela from 1999until his death in 2013.
In his speech, AssociateProfessor Nguyen An Ninh from the Ho Chi Minh National Academy ofPolitics and Public Administration, said Hugo Chavez himself initiatedand materialised a new socialism model of the 21 st century, anadministration of the people and a new internationalism in LatinAmerica.
Chavez appeared in public as a statesman, apolitical leader, a soldier ready to fight for the nation and one ofthe greatest thinkers of all time, he said.
Theseminar closed with the screening of a 40-minute documentary “Hugo-myfriend” by well-known American director Oliver Stone.
The film portrays the simple life of the Venezuelan leader through narratives of his close associates.
The seminar was co-hosted by the Vietnam Union of FriendshipOrganisations and the Venezuelan Embassy in Hanoi, attractingrepresentatives from the Party Central Committee’s Commission forExternal Relations, the Foreign Ministry and students from HanoiUniversity.-VNA
Venezuelan AmbassadorJorge Rondon Uzcategui reminisced about the life and political career ofHugo Chavez, who founded the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement in hisyouth in the early 1980s and became President of Venezuela from 1999until his death in 2013.
In his speech, AssociateProfessor Nguyen An Ninh from the Ho Chi Minh National Academy ofPolitics and Public Administration, said Hugo Chavez himself initiatedand materialised a new socialism model of the 21 st century, anadministration of the people and a new internationalism in LatinAmerica.
Chavez appeared in public as a statesman, apolitical leader, a soldier ready to fight for the nation and one ofthe greatest thinkers of all time, he said.
Theseminar closed with the screening of a 40-minute documentary “Hugo-myfriend” by well-known American director Oliver Stone.
The film portrays the simple life of the Venezuelan leader through narratives of his close associates.
The seminar was co-hosted by the Vietnam Union of FriendshipOrganisations and the Venezuelan Embassy in Hanoi, attractingrepresentatives from the Party Central Committee’s Commission forExternal Relations, the Foreign Ministry and students from HanoiUniversity.-VNA
