# hugo-chavez - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Opposition lawmakers said they were denied speaking rights as they refused to recognise the election of Nicolas Maduro as successor to Hugo Chavez.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 15 April, 2013
It’s finally official after demands for recount: The acting president will succeed the late Hugo Chavez, beating his opponent by just over 1 per cent.
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Nicolas Maduro, who had been acting president since the death of Hugo Chavez, won 50.66 per cent of the vote last night.
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# hugo-chavez - Sunday 14 April, 2013
Venezuelan’s went to the polls today to vote in a successor to Hugo Chavez.
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# hugo-chavez - Thursday 14 March, 2013
The acting president of Venezuela said preparatory steps to put Hugo Chavez’s body on display should have been taken much earlier.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 11 March, 2013
Henrique Capriles will run in elections to replace late President Hugo Chavez.
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# hugo-chavez - Saturday 9 March, 2013
We’ve lost a colourful world leader who genuinely seemed to have the best interests of his people at heart. But the facts don’t lie – Chávez’s economic legacy is a warning against statist socialism, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# hugo-chavez - Friday 8 March, 2013
Good morning. Here are nine things to know as you start your day.
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Venezuelan vice president Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in later today and said that Chavez will be kept in a glass casket “for eternity”.
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# hugo-chavez - Thursday 7 March, 2013
“I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die,” the late Venezuelan president is quoted as saying according to the head of the presidential guard.
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# hugo-chavez - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Expectations are that the government will hold elections within the next month as Venezuela faces uncertainty following the death of the leftist leader.
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Good morning. Here are nine things to know as you start your day.
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Reaction from world leaders to the death of the Venezuelan president yesterday has been mixed.
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# hugo-chavez - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
The fiery populist has died following a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 18 February, 2013
“Nobody is going to stop this revolution. We are making history,” leftist leader Rafael Correa declared as he secured a third term in office.
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# hugo-chavez - Saturday 26 January, 2013
The government said the riot was set off after inmates at the Uribana prison rebelled against prison authorities who had launched a sweep of the facility in search of illicit weapons.
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# hugo-chavez - Thursday 24 January, 2013
El Pais published a photograph it said was of ailing president Hugo Chavez in his hospital bed – provoking a furious reaction from Venezuela.
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# hugo-chavez - Sunday 13 January, 2013
The brother of Hugo Chavez says reports that the family is discussing ending life support for the Venezuelan leader are totally false.
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# hugo-chavez - Sunday 6 January, 2013
Many of us are returning to work for the first time tomorrow following the festive period. Here is a round-up of the news stories you may have missed. You are welcome.
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# hugo-chavez - Friday 4 January, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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Hugo Chavez’s top aides say the opposition and the media have used the Venezuelan president’s poor health to wage a “psychological war” to destabilise the country.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 31 December, 2012
The Venezuelan president has developed new complications from an infection after undergoing his latest round of cancer-related surgery.
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# hugo-chavez - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Chavez has not disclosed details of the type of cancer has has but in a significant move he has designated his successor, vice president Nicolas Maduro.
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# hugo-chavez - Friday 7 December, 2012
The Venezuelan president said he was very happy to be back but did not elaborate on his health.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 8 October, 2012
Facing his sternest test yet, the socialist leader saw off the challenge of Henrique Capriles in yesterday’s election and could now complete 20 years in office.
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# hugo-chavez - Sunday 7 October, 2012
Hugo Chavez has been in power for almost 14 years – but his opponent in the presidential election is in a statistical dead heat with the president in opinion polls.
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# hugo-chavez - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
The Venezuelan president has urged his citizens to avoid sugary soft drinks – and instead go for grape juice. But why?
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# hugo-chavez - Saturday 2 June, 2012
# hugo-chavez - Sunday 13 May, 2012
Government critics and supporters alike are amused at the suggestion of a pundit on a state-run TV station.
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# hugo-chavez - Saturday 17 March, 2012
The Venezuelan president rallied thousands of supporters who welcomed him home after receiving cancer treatment in Cuba.
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# hugo-chavez - Friday 2 March, 2012
The Venezuelan leader has undergone surgery for another potentially cancerous tumour.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 27 February, 2012
The Venezuelan leader says he will still run in October’s presidential election despite the recurrence of his illness.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 9 January, 2012
Hugo Chavez has welcomed Iran’s president onto Venezuelan soil and called for his country to leave a World Bank-affiliated body. Meanwhile, Washington has expelled Venezuela’s consul general in Miami.
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# hugo-chavez - Thursday 29 December, 2011
The Venezuelan president insisted he was merely thinking aloud. It follows news that Argentina’s president is the latest Latin Americna leader to be diagnosed with cancer.
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# hugo-chavez - Thursday 20 October, 2011
The Venezuelan president has been undergoing treatment in Cuba and now says he is free of the illness.
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# hugo-chavez - Monday 17 October, 2011
The Venezuelan president said he expects to return home within the coming days with “good news” after undergoing tests in Cuba.
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# hugo-chavez - Wednesday 17 August, 2011
The Venezuelan president said he is doing well following his second round of chemotherapy.
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# hugo-chavez - Saturday 6 August, 2011
The Venezuelan leader underwent surgery on a tumour in June.
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# hugo-chavez - Friday 22 July, 2011
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