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 | 2012( Fernando Llano / Associated Press / March 5, 2013 )
Chavez holds two pistols that he said belonged to Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar. Chavez held a ceremony on July 24, 2012, at Miraflores Palace marking the 229th anniversary of Bolivar's birth. Bolivar is the namesake of Chavez's socialist "Bolivarian Revolution."
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