Ramtin Arablouei and Randa Abdel-Fattah
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He's now at the center of the movement.
And there, his desire for change will only intensify.
February the 4th, 1992, and normal programming on Venezuelan TV was interrupted by this unfolding story.
A press conference is announced very hastily.
TV crews with microphones get in position.
And then... Out comes the president.
Carlos Andres Perez, followed by the minister of defense.
And the president said, this is Lieutenant Colonel Chavez.
And then he spoke for two minutes.
Actually, a little less than two minutes.
Before I tell you what Chavez said in that speech, let me first explain how he ended up there in roughly two minutes.
So Chavez was born in 1954 in a part of Venezuela called Los Llanos.
They're equivalent of the U.S.
kind of wild west of these big rolling plains.