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 | 2002( Juan Barreto / AFP/Getty Images / March 5, 2013 )
Chavez addresses members of the foreign news media during a news conference at the presidential Miraflores Palace in Caracas on July 18, 2002. Chavez said that Venezuela was further from war and political chaos than before and that the country showed signs of "rational optimism" for the future.
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