Venezuela Turmoil Takes Its Marital Toll
From Times Wire Reports
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his wife, Marisabel, are getting a divorce, she said in an interview.
They have been married for five years and have a daughter, 4. It is the second marriage for both.
Marisabel Chavez said she and her children--she has a son from a previous marriage--have had to flee the presidential mansion three times during political turmoil.
“That’s no life for anyone,” she said in an interview with El Universal newspaper published Sunday.
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