The
Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (
Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario 200 or
MBR-200) was the political and
social movement that former
Venezuelan president
Hugo Chávez founded in 1982. It eventually planned and executed the
February 4, 1992 attempted coup. The movement later evolved into the
Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR), set up in July 1997 to support
Hugo Chávez's candidacy in the
Venezuelan presidential election, 1998. The move to electoral politics took several years of intense internal debate, as many felt that the elections might be fixed to prevent an MBR-200 candidate winning. It took a nationwide survey conducted by the movement to show that it might gain enough electoral support to make victory hard to deny.