Born 28 July 1954 in rural Sabaneta, Chávez entered military service upon his graduation from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in 1975.

In 1997 he became a member of the Venezuelan Academy of History, and started a Sunday column for the daily El Nacional.

Aged seventeen, Chávez studied at the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in Caracas.

Category:Members of the Venezuelan Academy of Language (includes past members)

Also was member of the Venezuelan Academy of History from 1957, being chosen on 10 January 1979.

Chávez later lived with his grandmother, whose father was Jewish, and rose through school to obtain entry into the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences as a cadet.

He subsequently enrolled at the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences as a cadet.

In 1984 he got an individual number at the Venezuelan Academy of Language, being its president until 2009.

He served as Director of the Venezuelan Academy of History, which he joined on 27 February 1997.