Heroes & Heroines

Here are some individuals that are inspiring the Bolivarian Revolution as well as the V for Venezuela web site. Names with asterisks * are those that have been mentioned by Hugo Chávez in his speeches and conversations.

Toussaint L'Ouverture *	Simon De Bolivar *	Abraham Lincoln *
Jose Felix Ribas *	Ezequiel Zamora *	Simon Rodriguez *
Guaicaipuro *	Manuela Saenz *	Antonio José de Sucre*
Jacobo Arbenz *	Che Guevara *	Salvador Allende *
Farabundo Marti *	Augusto Sandino *	Carlos Fonseca
Chico Mendes	Rigoberta Menchu	Subcommandante Marcos
Tupac Amaru *	Sitting Bull *	Crazy Horse
Tecumseh	Osceola	Emiliano Zapata *
Sojourner Truth	Harriet Tubman	Frederick Douglass
John Brown	Malcolm X	Huey Newton
James Connolly	Bhagat Singh	Patrice Lumumba
Petr Kropotkin	Elisee Reclus	Rosa Luxemburg *
Frida Kahlo *	Cesar Chavez *	Dolores Huerta
W.E.B. Dubois	C.L.R. James	Franz Fanon *
Walt Whitman *	Langston Hughes	Pablo Neruda *
Joe Hill	Woodie Guthrie	Paul Robeson *
Eugene Debs	Emma Goldman	Mother Jones
Dorothy Day	Oscar Romero *	Albert Schweitzer
Henry David Thoreau	Mahatma Gandhi *	Martin Luther King *
Paulo Freire *	Ernesto Cardenal *	Howard Zinn
Albert Einstein	Rachel Carson	Noam Chomsky *