Hugo Chavez is at it again. Having lost a constitutional referendum last December which would have allowed him to run for president of Venezuela for life, and having been effectively rebuffed in ...

Journalist Rory Carroll spent six years observing and writing about Chavez as Latin America correspondent for The Guardian. He's just published a book, "Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela," about the ...

Key events in Hugo Chavez’s life: Feb. 4, 1992 – Army paratroop commander Lt. Col. Chavez leads botched coup against President Carlos Andres Perez. Faces possible 30-year prison term, but case never ...

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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer in 2013, is coming back to life – on television. A new Spanish-language series, from Sony Pictures Television, recounts how Chavez rose from obscurity ...

During fourteen years as President, Hugo Chavez used Venezuela's vast oil resources to help the poor, which made him a hero to masses of people. It also earned the ongoing opposition of the previous ...

CARACAS, Venezuela—President Hugo Chávez elevated expectations for his re-election, swearing he would deliver a “hurricane” victory and “thrash” the opposition. He made good on the promise: Early ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez suffered a stinging defeat today in a vote on constitutional changes that would have let him run for re-election indefinitely and solidify his bid to ...

I am not a reader of biographies and I am not a fan of learning history by studying the lives of "great men". Having said that, I believe that Hugo! — The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Key events in Hugo Chavez’s political life: Feb. 4, 1992 _ Army paratrooper Lt. Col. Chavez leads botched coup against President Carlos Andres Perez. March 26, 1994 _ After ...

Hugo Chavez is at it again. Having lost a constitutional referendum last December which would have allowed him to run for president of Venezuela for life, and having been effectively rebuffed in ...