Anybody recognize this skinny kid?
Here’s a hint: 40 years ago as of August 8, he entered the Venezuelan military academy as an officer cadet. His original hope was to become a big-league baseball pitcher. (He’s a southpaw.) Baseball took a backseat to a passion for history and eventually politics, though, as he read up on Simón Bolívar and became something of a revolutionary himself.
And today, he’s kind of a big man in that country, as well as being, well, not so skinny anymore!
And that would be Hugo Chavez. Or Chavecito as he is known here in Queen ‘Bina world!