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Sean Penn in Venezuela to mourn 'friend' Hugo Chavez
The mourners lamenting the death of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez included the presidents of Iran and Cuba, a Spanish prince and a man that Chavez himself once floated as a possible American ambassador to Venezuela: Hollywood actor Sean Penn. Penn...
Tags: Human Rights, The Huffington Post, Sean Penn, Politics, Hugo Chavez
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Pull back the curtain, Venezuela
The campaign to succeed the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is underway, and as with past campaigns in that country, passions are running high. Vice President Nicolas Maduro and opposition candidate Henrique Capriles exchange near-daily attacks,...
Tags: Voting, Jimmy Carter, Politics, Hugo Chavez, Elections
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Hugo Chavez's funeral and Gustavo Dudamel's passion for Venezuela
“Tell me,” Lazarus asks during the Last Supper Passover Seder in John Adams’ “The Gospel According to the Other Mary,” "why is this night different from all other nights?” The answer for Gustavo Dudamel on Thursday...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Culture, Heads of State, Entertainment
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Venezuela's 'president in charge' Maduro picks a running mate
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela’s new interim president, Nicolas Maduro, gave a clear sign Friday night that he will use political capital left by the late President Hugo Chavez to win election in his own right. In his acceptance speech to the...
Tags: Jesse Jackson, Heads of State, Politics, Hugo Chavez, Elections
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Venezuela interim leader vows to tackle crime
CARACAS, Venezuela — Interim President Nicolas Maduro on Monday raised the curtain on Venezuela's abbreviated campaign to elect a successor to Hugo Chavez, lavishly praising the late leader during a televised address but promising to tackle...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Caracas (Venezuela), Politics, Hugo Chavez, Elections
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Hugo Chavez's voodoo economics
Two years before his death, Hugo Chavez tried to repeal the law of supply and demand, which says that free markets set the price: the higher the demand, the higher the price. Every producer who was willing to sell at that equilibrium price would be able...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Hugo Chavez's legacy
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday of cancer at age 58, was beloved and reviled, bombastic and provocative, a flamboyant figure who was vastly influential in his country and throughout the region. The former paratrooper-turned-populist...
Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, George W. Bush, Iran, Cuba, World Bank Group
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Hugo Chavez begins his literary afterlife at Venezuela Book Fair
Hugo Chavez is already having a very busy afterlife. The charismatic and controversial president of Venezuela died March 5. Not long afterward, one joke goes, he showed up in heaven and persuaded St. Peter to choose a Latin American as the next pope....
Tags: Barack Obama, National Government, Condoleezza Rice, Iraq War (2003-2011), Pat Boone
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Funeral begins for Venezuela's Chavez
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CARACAS, Venezuela -- The funeral ceremony for late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got underway Friday at a military base in the capital before 32 heads of state and with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra directed by Los Angeles conductor Gustavo...Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Arts and Culture, Sebastian Pinera, Heads of State, Caracas (Venezuela)
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Body of Hugo Chavez to remain on view under glass
CARACAS, Venezuela -- After funeral services Friday with at least 33 heads of state expected to be in attendance, the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be specially embalmed and ultimately placed on permanent public display in a glass case,...
Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S. Embassy, Arts and Culture, Heads of State, Caracas (Venezuela)
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Gustavo Dudamel to attend Hugo Chavez funeral, miss L.A. concert
Gustavo Dudamel will fly to Caracas, Venezuela for the funeral Friday of President Hugo Chavez, and the L.A. Philharmonic music director might lead a concert tied to the Chavez events. The Venezuelan-born conductor is expected to head to Caracas...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Caracas (Venezuela), Entertainment, Hugo Chavez
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Hugo Chavez's return ends 10-week absence from Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Ending a 10-week absence from Venezuela for cancer treatment, President Hugo Chavez finally returned from Cuba early Monday morning as the government planned welcoming celebrations in several cities. Official word of his return...
Tags: Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, National Government, Cuba, Caracas (Venezuela)
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