Venezuela · 1999–2013
Hugo Chávez
Bolivarian socialist. Oil-funded social missions and a presidency that captured courts and the vote machinery.
Hugo Chávez is on the world-leaders chart for Venezuela, 1999–2013. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Bolivarian socialist. Oil-funded social missions and a presidency that captured courts and the vote machinery.
The dot is economics -58 and authority +54, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is left of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: Bolivarian socialism, oil for the poor, and a participatory democracy. Done: Missions were funded while courts, the oil company, and the vote machinery were captured. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana, -52 / +50) and Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt, -38 / +60). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Two governments can share a number and share nothing else. The source is the public governing record, not a news write-up and not a campaign advertisement.