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 | 2007( Howard Yanes / Associated Press / March 5, 2013 )
Riot police officers protect themselves as university students protest in Caracas on Nov. 1, 2007. Troops used tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators who turned out by the tens of thousands to protest constitutional changes that would permit Chavez to run for reelection indefinitely.
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