President Hugo Chávez won an additional six-year term in October but was never sworn in. When he died Tuesday, after an 18-month battle with cancer, it revived questions about exactly who should be in charge of this oil-rich nation until new elections can be held.
Dozens of world leaders will be in the audience at former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s state funeral Friday morning. He will then be put on display, the government said.
Friends, including an old girlfriend, in the late Venezuelan president’s hometown recall a headstrong man whose nickname was ‘Goofy.’
With the death of Hugo Chávez, local Venezuelans want the U.S. government to urge Caracas to reopen its official office in Miami.
Venezuela’s request for a moment of silence to honor Hugo Chavez was denied before the national team lost to Miami.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has succumbed to cancer, the government announced.
Miami’s role as a magnet for Venezuelans and their money is unlikely to change following the death of their strongman president Hugo Chávez.
Crowds clustered in popular Venezuelan restaurants in Doral, Weston and other ex-pat enclaves, all eyes glued to the television.
Among the concerns after Hugo Chávez’s death are whether his successor in Venezuela will continue his Petrocaribe program and his ideological leadership.
Amid fanfare and crowds, the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was escorted to the site where he will lay in state until his funeral.
Many Venezuelans said they have become part of Miami’s fabric and are in no hurry to return to the South American country.
With record inflation and skyrocketing crime rates, Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro’s best bet to win Venezuela’s upcoming elections will be to campaign on late President Hugo Chávez’s memory, and to raise tensions with Washington.
The Venezuelan government declared seven days of mourning to mark the death of its president, Hugo Chávez. He will be given a state funeral on Friday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was one of Latin America’s most charismatic, influential and controversial leaders. On Tuesday, the socialist firebrand lost his long-running battle with cancer. He was 58.
We asked members of the Public Insight Network, an online community of people who have agreed to share their opinions with The Miami Herald, how Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died Tuesday, will be remembered and what's the future for Venezuela. We highlighted some of their answers below. Become a source by going to MiamiHerald.com/Insight.
The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has given free rein to fears that Cuba will plunge into an economic abyss again if Caracas halts its subsidies, estimated at well above the massive aid that the Soviet Union once provided to Havana.
For several Caribbean leaders, reaction to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s death was swift and came in the form of 140 characters on Twitter while others like Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer were too “distraught and devastated,” and needed time to collect their thoughts.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s death will most likely mark the beginning of the end of Venezuela’s political clout in Latin America, but his influence inside Venezuela is likely to last for many decades.
The Venezuelan government said that a new respiratory infection has put ailing President Hugo Chávez in a ‘very delicate’ state.
‘Isla Presidencial,’ an Internet cartoon that pillories politicos, may be at a crossroads now that Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is out of view.
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