Hugo Chavez has passed. At age 58, the president of Venezuela has succumbed to cancer after a 2 year battle. Chavez had massive support among the poor and underclass. He used revenue from oil profits to create social programs and was despised by upper-class, well to do citizens. Chavez was famously known for calling President George Bush “the devil” at a United Nations speech in 2006. Throughout the years of his presidency, Hugo Chavez remained an outspoken and continuous critic of the United States government.