 Chavez placed the success of the movement above all else.He felt that he had to be both the leader and the organizer-in-chief of his movement because only he had the necessary commitment to the cause.He was interested in power and how to use it; although his role model in this was Gandhi, he also studied the ideas about power by Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolf Hitler, and Mao Zedong, drawing ideas from each.