Over 80,000 people, 50,000 of whom were from outside Venezuela, marched in a trip from the Simon Bolivar International Airport to downtown Caracas as a part of the progressive world social forum held by Hugo Chavez. The World Social Forum was first held in Brazil in 2001, and is meant to coincide with the World Economic Forum, a pro-free market meeting of political and business leaders, as well as marking the anniversary of the end of the Perez-Jimenez dictatorship in Venezuela on January 23, 1958.