Hugo Chavez

Hugo Chavez

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  Surviving a surge in street violence in Venezuela

  On their daily cable car rides to and from home in Venezuela's capital, Maria Gonzalez and Jose Rafael Suarez soar in a bubble of safety far above the ... 

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  Venezuela book fair offers more Chavez than books

  Near the entrance to Venezuela's national book fair, an image of the late Hugo Chavez holding a can of paint in one hand and a brush in the other ... 

• Presidential candidates spar in Venezuela

  Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has launched a nationwide tour as part of his campaign to replace the late President Hugo Chavez. 

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  Hugo Chavez coffin parades past Venezuela's ills

  The road from the military academy where Hugo Chavez's body has been lying in state to the hilltop museum where he'll be displayed indefinitely is ... 

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  Venezuelans left with problems after Chavez death

  Venezuelans are lining up to bid their last farewell to Hugo Chavez along a route that's a reminder of the problems left behind after the late ... 

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  Venezuela's opposition ground down by Chavistas

  The people tapped by Hugo Chavez to carry on his socialist revolution seem to be improvising the rules of governing as they march toward what most ... 

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  Maduro: Chavez long-term embalming unlikely

  Venezuela's acting president said Wednesday that it is highly unlikely Hugo Chavez will be embalmed for permanent viewing because the decision to do ... 

• Chavez death: Venezuelans in US ready for election

  Ramon Perez traveled 16 hours by bus from Miami to New Orleans to vote last October in a Venezuelan presidential election won by Hugo Chavez. 

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  Ahmadinejad under fire for hugging Chavez's mother

  Senior Iranian clerics have scolded President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez's mother with a hug - a physical contact considered a sin ... 

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  Chavez tattoos, kitsch in demand since death

  Business has never been better for Eudis Carrillo. Sure, he's heartbroken over the death of his hero Hugo Chavez, but there's precious little time for ... 

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  Venezuela's political divisions spill into streets

  Under a three-story-tall banner blaring "You are all Chavez," Jose Rafael Hernandez crouched low with a can of spray paint, outlining on a wall a ... 

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  Hand-picked Chavez successor registers in election

  Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace ... 

• US expels 2 Venezuelan diplomats

  The Obama administration has expelled two Venezuelan diplomats in retaliation for Venezuela's expulsion of two U.S. military attaches. 

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  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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  Other world leaders whose bodies are on display

  World leaders whose bodies have been preserved and put on perpetual display, as Venezuela's government plans to do with Hugo Chavez: ___ VLADIMIR ... 

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  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 ... 

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  Fiery funeral for Venezuela's Chavez

  Hugo Chavez was lauded as a modern-day reincarnation of Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar at a fiery, foot-stomping state funeral Friday, hours ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  Dominican Republic beats Venezuela 9-3 in WBC

  Before the Dominican Republic played its first game in the World Baseball Classic, Jose Reyes warned that the team's only goal was to win the ... 

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  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 ... 

• 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 

• 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 ...