
Fidel Castro laments loss of 'best friend,' Chavez
Retired leader Fidel Castro broke nearly a week of silence since the death of friend and ally Hugo Chavez, saying Monday that Cuba has lost its "best ...

Venezuela candidate: Govt exploits Chavez death
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles on Sunday launched what many consider a doomed candidacy to replace Hugo Chavez with a no-holds-barred ...

Venezuela sets presidential election for April 14
Venezuelans will vote April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced Saturday as increasingly strident political ...

Preservation of Venezuelan leader's body not easy
No one lives forever — nor do they last forever. At least not without a lot of tuneups. As much as it may seem like the bodies of famous world leaders ...
Venezuela sets April 14 for presidential election
Venezuela's electoral council has set a presidential election for April 14 to choose the successor to President Hugo Chavez. Acting President Nicolas ...

Maduro leans on Chavez's charisma for popularity
Nicolas Maduro so far has led by imitation, seeking to fill the shoes of a president whose uncanny vigor, mischievous humor and political wiles sowed ...

Nicolas Maduro sworn in as Venezuelan president
Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday as Venezuela's acting president, using the occasion to launch blistering attacks on the U.S. as well as the ...

Wealthy Venezuelans shedding no tears for Chavez
In the tree-lined eastern hills of Caracas, you would never know an elaborate state funeral was in progress across town for the most popular president ...

Hugo Chavez's body to be put on permanent display
Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and now Hugo Chavez. The late leader's supporters have put him on a pedestal long provided for the world's ...

Chavez body to be put on permanent display
Hugo Chavez's body will be preserved and forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace from which ...

Venezuela: Maduro to take oath as acting president
Vice President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in as acting president of Venezuela on Friday after a state funeral is held for Hugo Chavez, the speaker ...

The wild card in Venezuela: Armed Chavistas
The banner just inside the poor neighborhood in western Caracas reads, "Loyal to Comandante Chavez." The guard at the gate ensures no one enters ...
Chavez body to be permanently displayed
Venezuela's acting president says Hugo Chavez's embalmed body will be permanently displayed in a glass casket so that "his people will always have him

Chavez's try to be savior of poor floundered in US
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send thousands of soldiers, firefighters and volunteers to help ...
Oil price rises as US economy seen strengthening
Oil prices moved up slightly closer to $91 a barrel on Thursday as reports of a moderately improving U.S. economy, which suggests increased fuel ...

General: Heart attack killed a suffering Chavez
President Hugo Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live, the head of Venezuela's ...

A day of tears after Chavez death in Venezuela
By the hundreds of thousands, Hugo Chavez's tearful supporters carried their dead president through streets still plastered with his smiling image, ...

Venezuela petro-allies nervous over Chavez's death
Cubans remember the so-called Special Period of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union's sudden collapse plunged the island into years of economic ...

Chavez widely mourned, but some hope change on way
Some cried, some cheered. Many Latin Americans mourned the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, leaders in Europe and Asia sent condolences, and ...
Oil recovers some losses on upbeat Fed report
The price of oil regained some of its earlier losses on Wednesday after a report from the Federal Reserve showed the economy strengthened across much ...

Chavez death brings uncertainty, hope to oil patch
Following Tuesday's death of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela faces near-term political uncertainty that could bring further turmoil to its oil industry.
Little reaction in oil market to Chavez death
Oil markets are taking the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in their stride, with the price of crude little changed Wednesday. By early ...

Chavez death: Venezuelans in US hopeful of change
Venezuelans in the U.S. cheered and expressed cautious optimism that new elections will bring change to their homeland after the death of President ...

Quotes about the death of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
A selection of quotes from world leaders and ordinary citizens about the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "We have lost a revolutionary, but ...

Venezuela's Chavez dies, officials call for unity
Some in anguish, some in fear, Venezuelans raced for home and stocked up on food and water Tuesday after the government announced the death of ...