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Nicolás Maduro, acting President of Venezuela, officially begins his campaign to succeed Hugo Chávez in the late leader's hometown ahead of the April 14 election.
2013-04-3

Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, dies in office at the age of 58 in the capital, Caracas.
2013-03-5

President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez returns home after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba.
2013-02-18

Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, undergoes cancer surgery in Cuba.
2012-12-11

President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez returns home after successfully completing of a course of radiotherapy for cancer in Cuba.
2012-05-12

The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez confirms that doctors in Cuba have found a lesion and he will have to undergo an operation.
2012-02-21

Three Venezuelan hunger strikers are hospitalised after calling for an international probe into alleged human rights abuses by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez.
2011-02-21

Venezuela and Colombia re-establish diplomatic relations after a meeting between recently inaugurated President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Santa Marta, Colombia, mediated by UNASUR Secretary General Néstor Kirchner.
2010-08-11

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez almost come to blows at the Rio Group summit in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, with Uribe taunting Chávez "Be a man! … you're a coward face-to-face! Stay and argue face-to-face!" and Chávez responding with a simple "Go to Hell!" The Summit also announces the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
2010-02-22

Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Venezuela for and against the polices of President Hugo Chávez amid a currency revaluation and energy shortages in the country.
2010-01-23