# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - 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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5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Good morning! Here are the nine things you need to know as you kick off your Monday.
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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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# venezuela - Sunday 14 April, 2013
Venezuelan’s went to the polls today to vote in a successor to Hugo Chavez.
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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - Monday 11 March, 2013
Henrique Capriles will run in elections to replace late President Hugo Chavez.
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# venezuela - Saturday 9 March, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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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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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - 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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Reaction from world leaders to the death of the Venezuelan president yesterday has been mixed.
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# venezuela - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
The fiery populist has died following a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
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At least one US military official has been expelled from Venezuela amid accusations of a conspiracy, the Pentagon has confirmed.
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# venezuela - Monday 18 February, 2013
# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - Friday 4 January, 2013
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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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - Friday 14 December, 2012
The leader of Venezuela underwent treatment for cancer in Cuba earlier this week.
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# venezuela - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
The Venezuelan president flew to Havana, Cuba, for surgery on Monday after revealing his cancer had returned.
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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - Monday 22 October, 2012
Venezuela’s Vice President, Elias Jaua, said that he met with the aging revolutionary, which was Castro’s first public appearance in a number of months.
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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - Monday 24 September, 2012
John Alan Brooks was today sentenced at a court in England for his involvement in a plot to smuggle 1.5 tonnes of cocaine.
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# venezuela - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
Daniel “El Loco” Barrera, alleged to be the country’s last major drug lord, has been arrested in an international sting.
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# venezuela - Monday 3 September, 2012
Authorities have been urged to continue their investigations, after reports that illegal gold miners massacred up to 80 members of an indigenous tribe by setting fire to a communal hut.
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# venezuela - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
Fatal fires raged at refinery tanks for three days before being put out.
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# venezuela - Saturday 25 August, 2012
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Huge clouds of smoke were seen over the refinery this morning after early morning blast believed to have been caused by gas leak.
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Explosion was casued by a gas leak, according to the oil minister.
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# venezuela - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
The Irish team’s group rivals, Germany, are in action, as they take on Argentina.
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# venezuela - 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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# venezuela - Friday 20 July, 2012
We’ll be rooting for Cuba in 2013.
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# venezuela - Wednesday 20 June, 2012
US State Dept’s annual report on human trafficking shows progress being made in Burma, while Syria fell in the rankings.
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