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Aló Presidente (English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: Hello President) is a talk show hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Ch?vez Fr?as is the current President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Ch?vez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation....
 and broadcast on Venezuelan media every Sunday at 11:00 AM. Of variable format, the show broadcasts each Sunday on state-owned television and radio stations. The show features Chávez addressing topics of the day and touring locations where government social welfare programs are active.






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Aló Presidente (English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: Hello President) is a talk show hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Ch?vez Fr?as is the current President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Ch?vez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation....
 and broadcast on Venezuelan media every Sunday at 11:00 AM. Of variable format, the show broadcasts each Sunday on state-owned television and radio stations. The show features Chávez addressing topics of the day and touring locations where government social welfare programs are active. The show doesn't have an official end time—it continues until Chavez is ready to stop, so the program often lasts about five hours. More than 320 episodes have aired.

The first program aired via radio on May 23, 1999, about three months after Chávez took office. Government ministers are required to attend the program. They may be questioned by the president about anything, and sometimes policy—even military plans—are made on the show. On the March 2, 2008 airing, Chávez ordered a top general to send ten battalions of troops to the border with Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
. This was in response to a bombing by Colombian forces inside Ecuador which killed Raúl Reyes, a top member of FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), and a friend of Chávez. (See 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis
2008 Andean diplomatic crisis

The 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off between Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Beginning with an incursion into Ecuador territory across the Putumayo River by the Military of Colombia, it led to the death of over twenty terrorists, including Ra?l Reyes and sixteen other members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Co...
.)

The president counts former Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
n leader Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
 among his heroes, and nearly every week asks "How are you, Fidel?" For unknown reasons, the greeting is normally in English. Chávez has also frequently used the program to criticize former president George W. Bush
George W. Bush

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 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, which he often refers to as "the Empire."

See also

  • Media representation of Hugo Chávez
    Media representation of Hugo Chávez

    The media representation of Hugo Ch?vez involves the portrayal of the current President of Venezuela, Hugo Ch?vez, in both the Venezuelan and international media....
  • Bolivarian Missions
    Bolivarian Missions

    The Bolivarian Missions are a series of social justice, social welfare, anti-poverty, educational, electoral and military recruiting programs implemented under the administration of the current Venezuelan president Hugo Ch?vez....


External links

  • — Website of Hugo Chávez's weekly talk show; site features full-length streaming and downloadable video and audio files for each episode.
  • — Back episodes (from 1999 through October 2004) of Aló Presidente.
  • — Official Chávez biography.
  • — In which confidential parts of the FTAA rounds in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, were aired.