Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on October 9, 2012. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, Vice President Nicolas Maduro has announced. Maduro, flanked by political and military leaders, made the announcement on Tuesday evening on national television. “We have just received the most tragic and awful information.... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waves during the proclamation act in Caracas, October 10, 2012. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s medical team in Cuba has successfully completed an operation that targeted an aggressive cancer. On Tuesday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said that the “complex operation” which lasted almost six hours and was “correctly and successfully” completed. Chavez... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on October 9, 2012. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will continue to support his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and has blamed the United States for the 19-month unrest in the Arab country. Chavez made the remarks in the capital Caracas on Tuesday, two days after he won a fourth consecutive term in office, which... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waves his country’s flag while speaking to supporters after receiving news of his reelection, Caracas, October 7, 2012 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has comfortably won a fourth consecutive term in office after a hotly-contested presidential election in the Latin American country. The National Electoral Council announced on Sunday that President Chavez won the... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez greets supporters during an election rally in Anzoategui, Venezuela on July 12, 2012. President Hugo Chavez has said that Venezuela poses no threat to anyone, including the United States, which considers the Bolivarian Republic a hostile state. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney said President Barack Obama is... 

The TV grab, showing the Venezuelan drone built in cooperation with Iran, was broadcast on June 13, 2012 during a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country has manufactured its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), dubbed Arpia-001 (Harpy-001), in cooperation with Iranian experts in order to strengthen the South American state’s defensive power. Venezuela... 

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez A Venezuelan journalist says President Hugo Chavez has been forced to use a wheelchair due to severe pain caused by a fracture in his femur and his spreading cancer. The pro-opposition Venezuelan columnist and radio talk-show host, Nelson Bocaranda, reported this week that Chavez got a fracture in his femur during his radiotherapy in Cuba. Spending most of the last... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a reunion with government members in ‎Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on April 11, 2012.‎ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has flown back to Cuba for another round of radiation therapy for his cancer, few days after undergoing same treatment there. “I must return (…) to Havana,” he said in a message broadcast on radio and television... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Miraflores presidential palace, Caracas, January 9, 2012 Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a week-long tour of Latin America. The Iranian leader visited Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador. Ahmadinejad does not have many friends in the world. All of them, except for Syria, are in Latin America.... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has ordered the closure of the country’s consulate in the US city of Miami amid tensions over the expulsion of Venezuelan Consul General Livia Acosta Noguera. Chavez said on Friday that the country will close its consulate in Miami, Florida, over the “unjust” and “abusive” removal of Acosta. “What we are going... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Following the expansion of economic and political relations between Tehran and Caracas, US President Barack Obama has demanded the Venezuelan government sever all ties with Iran. “I think the government’s ties with Iran and Cuba have not benefited the interests of Venezuela and its people,” Obama said in the email... 

Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, asserted that the former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, (2002-2010) planned to “make Colombia into the Israel of South America.” According to Chávez, the Uribe administration distanced his country from other nations in the region, “He nearly caused a war with Ecuador and broke relations with Venezuela, and neighboring countries.” The... 

Doctors treating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have confirmed that he has been cured of cancer and enjoys optimal health conditions now, Press TV reports. Doctors at the Military Hospital in Caracas, where Chavez has undergone chemotherapy, have rejected claims of Salvador Navarrete, a Venezuelan surgeon, that the president has an aggressive form of cancer, a Press TV correspondent reported Tuesday. Navarrete... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who undergoes anti-cancer treatment, may live for not more than two years. This opinion was voiced by Salvador Navarrete, who had been Chavez’s personal surgeon in Venezuela. “When I say this, it means that he has no more than two years left. Judging by the information from his family, Chavez has a tumor in his pelvis, or sarcoma, and this is why he is... 

Venezuela’s firebrand leader Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Sunday of a “shameful” role in the Egyptian crisis and of hypocrisy for supporting, then abandoning strongmen round the world. Chavez, Washington’s leading critic in the Americas, said he had spoken to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for a briefing on the protests...