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( Ramon Espinosa / Associated Press / March 5, 2013 )
A Venezuela sailor touches an image of Chavez on Dec. 13, 2012, after a Mass in support of his medical treatment in Havana. Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said on Dec. 24 that he had spoken by phone with Chavez and that the leader was up and walking after cancer surgery.
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