Home › Words › C › chavismochavismochavismo · noun — A left-wing populist ideology based on the policies of Hugo Chávez (1954–2013), the former president of Venezuela (2002–2013), and the politics of the Bolivarian Revolution (Bolivarianism).Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyBorrowed from Spanish chavismo; itself from Chávez (“Hugo Chávez”) + -ismo.nounA left-wing populist ideology based on the policies of Hugo Chávez (1954–2013), the former president of Venezuela (2002–2013), and the politics of the Bolivarian Revolution (Bolivarianism).e.g.“As [Nicolás] Maduro sits in jail in New York, at home [Delcy] Rodríguez is remaking Chavismo, the revolutionary movement launched by Chávez, in her image.” — 2026 April 4, Ana Rodríguez Brazón, Joe Daniels, “Rodríguez erases images of past leaders”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.chavism 88% match — Chavismo; the left-wing populist ideology of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. vs chavismo →chavista 72% match — A follower of Hugo Chávez or Chavism. vs chavismo →chavist 71% match — Relating to Hugo Chávez. vs chavismo →bolivarianism 60% match — Any of various sets of political doctrines in parts of South America, especially Venezuela. vs chavismo →guevarism 56% match — The political philosophy of Che Guevara. vs chavismo →peronism 56% match — The eclectic political ideology attributed to the former Argentine leaders Juan Perón and Eva Duarte de Perón, combining populism, nationalism and state intervention, but originally chiefly centred on their personalities. vs chavismo →neopopulism 55% match — A cultural and political movement, mainly in Latin American countries, distinct from twentieth-century populism in radically combining classically opposed left-wing and right-wing attitudes and using electronic media as a means of dissemination. vs chavismo →kirchnerism 52% match — The political philosophy of Néstor Kirchner, president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president from 2007 to 2015. vs chavismo →