There is no purgatory. Suffering to pay for sins is unscriptural. Only the shedding of blood cleanses us from sin and where there is forgiveness, there remains no penalty for sin.(Hebrews)
Forgiveness is forgiveness. A clean slate with sins remembered no more. The penalty has been paid and the debt is cancelled.
So, yes, if Chavez had a real, genuine, honest to goodness change of heart and repented and confessed faith in Christ to save him, he was saved, as the thief on the cross was.
I will not be surprised in the least to not see Chavez in heaven.
I tell you what, IF he's there, I'll take him and Shawn Pen to dinner and a movie and when I drop them off at their lover boy mansion and then I'll kiss both of them on the lips.
That's my idea of purgatory.
I'm a Hetero guy.