Hugo Chávez
Chávez in 2006, photo by NorthfotoBP/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Place of Birth: 28 July, 1954
Date of Birth: Sabaneta, Venezuela
Date of Death: 5 March, 2013
Place of Death: Caracas, Venezuela
Ethnicity: Venezuelan [Indigenous, Spanish, African, including Mandinka, Basque], Italian, Indigenous Mexican
Hugo Chávez was a Venezuelan politician. He was the 64th President of Venezuela, from 2 February, 1999 to 12 April, 2002, and again, from 14 April, 2002 to 5 March, 2013, his death. He was also De facto President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, from 24 March, 2007 to 5 March, 2013.
He was the son of Elena Frías Pérez de Chávez and Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, who was Governor of Barinas, from 1998 to 2008. He had three children with his former wife Nancy Colmenares; and a daughter with his former wife, journalist Marisabel Rodríguez de Chávez.
He had said:
They say that “La Negra” (The Black) Inés, my great-grandmother, was the daughter of an African who went through those plains, not that they say, it’s true, because when a hundred people say the same thing in a small town, it’s true. I know the name of that African grandfather, who was from the Mandingas (Mandinka), so I ended up being a Mandinga (Mandinka), “La Negra” was the mother of my grandmother Rosa Inés Chávez, who was a mix of Indigenous and African. Because, look!, my grandmother Rosa Inés’ father was an Italian who got up to “La Negra” Inés and they lived together for a while, they had Rosa Inés and Ramón Chávez, I remember him.
Hugo’s paternal grandfather was named José Rafael Saavedra.
Hugo’s paternal grandmother was named Rosa Inés Chávez. Rosa’s father was said to have been José Francisco Benedicto Pisani Speranza, who was born in Carache, Trujillo, to Italian parents, José Pisano and Maria Speranza, who were from San Giovanni a Piro, Salerno, Campania.
Hugo’s maternal grandfather was Rafael Infante (the son of Pedro Rafael Pérez Delgado and Claudina Infante). Hugo’s grandfather Rafael was born in Sabaneta, Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, Barinas, Venezuela. Pedro was the son of Pedro Pérez Pérez and Josefa Delgado. Claudina was the daughter of Sevedro Infante.
Hugo’s maternal grandmother was Benita Frías Frías (the daughter of Juan Pablo Frías and Marta Frías). Juan Pablo was the son of Eloy Unda y Márquez de Estrada, who was of part Basque and likely remote Indigenous Mexican descent, through his own paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Francisco de Moctezuma; and of Eliza Frías. Marta was the daughter of Genaro Frías.
Source: Genealogy Hugo Chávez – https://www.geni.com
Classic triracial venezuelan, people like him make at least 54% of that country’s population
Yes indeed.
once in your life you said something useful here with the exception of those who the majority must be a mix of White+ Nave and not triracial as you say
According to the 2011 National Population and Housing Census, 43.6% of the population identified themselves as white people.[1] A genomic study shows that about 61.5% of the Venezuelan gene pool has European origin. Among the Latin American and Caribbean countries in the study (Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, El Salvador, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela), Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina exhibit the highest European contribution.
The ancestry of European Venezuelans is primarily Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
Other ancestries of European Venezuelans are: Germans, Poles, Greeks, Serbs and another minorities.
*Native
Yes the demography is more like 1/3 morenos whom are trirracial people like Chávez, 1/3 mestizos and 1/3 of “white” people that are predominantely Southern Europeans.
Apparently it’s more than just “small amounts of italian”, according to his relatives on Familysearch, Chávez was at least 1/4 italian.
Rosa Inés Chávez’ biological father was José Francisco Benedicto Pisani Speranza, born in Carache, Trujillo, to José Pisano and Maria Speranza, both from San Giovanni a Piro, Salerno, Campania. Chávez also had a paternal grandmother named Teodolinda Maria Vittoria Balestrini who was from Poggio, Livorno, Tuscany. That makes Hugo de los Reyes Chávez at least half italian.
And btw the Balestrini is the maternal side of his paternal grandfather José Rafael Saavedra.
Yeah bro we’re all mixed I don’t pretend to be European, it just comes out as shocking that somebody like Chávez, who’s not mestizo but a balanced pardo, a guy who always boasted about his afro-indigenous roots, somehow has as much as 25% Italian ancestry.
Now idk why you’re checking on ppls profiles that’s fucked up but yeah i’m half sicilian half venezuelan, the venezuelan part has canarian origins but also mestizo ancestry if you go back in some family lines. “Racial purity” is not something I really care about and the diverse origins of us Latin Americans is what makes genealogy so interesting imo.
Yeah bro we’re all mixed I don’t pretend to be European, it just comes out as shocking that somebody like Chávez, who’s not regular mstizo but a balanced triracial, a guy who always boasted about his afro-indigenous roots, somehow has as much as 25% Italian ancestry. Now idk why you’re checking on ppls profiles that’s fcked up but yeah i’m half sicilian half venezuelan, the venezuelan part has canarian origins but also m3stizo ancestry if you go back in some family lines. “Racial purity” is not something I really care about and the diverse origins of us Latin Americans is what makes genealogy so interesting imo.
I’m sorry but if you hate your White part so much and think that being “diverse” is wonderful why do you use that completely Italian name????
Lol
I don’t h8t my Southern European blood, it’s like 90% of me or whatever. I’ve always loved what I am. But one must always be humble when it comes to these things because even if I had 0% new world admixture, some smart azz like the guy above would come and say “ackshually southern italians/spaniards aren’t white either so you’re inferior “. So yeah I could care less what some guy on the internet says.
Now when I talk about “diversity” forget about the j3w agenda promoted in the west, Venezuela has always been a heterogenous nation and each individual is different from the other. And that’s what makes it shocking sometimes when you see a typical trirracial like Chávez having relatively recent italian ancestors. So yeah it makes absolutely no sense for anybody here to h8t on Europeans, they gave us culture, food, language, religion, they are the pillars of our society and even the darkest Venezuelan out there probably has a genetic relation to some European somewhere.
Exactly proving my point. Have a good one Urimnak, i’m sure your mama is proud.
Yes the zambo genes come strong
Just for the record, “Arabs” (?) never settled in South Italy except parts of Sicily. Campanians descend mostly to Italic peoples (like Samnites), marginally Greeks on the coast and Lombards in the inland…
This is not the Muricansareallmutts High School LOL
I don’t really get what point he’s making here, like Chávez is brown because he has significant african descent, not because he’s 1/8 terrone hahaha.
whats terrone
He had said: http://www.cuentosdelaranero.org.ve/la-negra-ines/
“They say that “La Negra” (The Black) Inés, my great-grandmother, was the daughter of an African who went through those plains, not that they say, it’s true, because when a hundred people say the same thing in a small town, it’s true. I know the name of that African grandfather, who was from the Mandingas (Mandinka), so I ended up being a Mandinga (Mandinka), “La Negra” was the mother of my grandmother Rosa Inés Chávez, who was a mix of Indigenous and African. Because, look!, my grandmother Rosa Inés’ father was an Italian who got up to “La Negra” Inés and they lived together for a while, they had Rosa Inés and Ramón Chávez, I remember him.”
That means, he was also of Italian (which is away from Venezuelan), and his African ancestry included Mandinka.
Benita’s maternal family name is also Frías.
Juan Pablo was the son of Eloy Unda y Márquez de Estrada, who was of part Basque and likely remote Indigenous Mexican descent (through his own paternal great-great-great-grandfather Francisco de Moctezuma), and of Eliza Frías. Marta’s surname is Frías, and was the daughter of Genaro Frías.
Basque is still part of Venezuelan ancestry.