Hugo Chavez | 1954-2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a barrel-chested former paratrooper who tapped his nation's oil wealth to deliver social welfare programs for the impoverished masses, died Tuesday at a Caracas military hospital where he was moved last month after a 10-week stay in Cuba for cancer treatment, Vice President Nicolas Maduro told national television. Chavez was 58. Read obituary
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Hugo Chavez | 2006( Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images / March 5, 2013 )
Chavez makes a gesture of prayer as he speaks of President George W. Bush, whom he referred to as "the devil" during his address to the 61st session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September 2006. "Yesterday, the devil came here," he said of Bush, who was there give a speech. "And it smells of sulfur still today."
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