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Article: Ted Koppel talks to Hugo Chavez: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez discusses poverty, revolution--and 'donated dollars' to the southern United States.(WORLD)(Interview)
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- Catholic New Times
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- October 9, 2005
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KOPPEL: Most Americans don't know very much about you. Tell me a little bit about your youth.
CHAVEZ: I would like to greet all of the people who are watching this program and who are listening to it. I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
Later, we were lucky enough, my brothers and I, to be able to study. There were six of us. My father and my mother were both teachers who inculcated in us the importance of studies. But of every 100 children from my town, 99 didn't get to study. That was poverty, the poorest farmers.
Later, I was a young athlete. One ...