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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was poised to return to Cuba on Sunday for more cancer treatment, having spoken for the first time of giving up power if his condition worsens or he dies.

• 10 декабря 2012, 13:55

The rumor mill over the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is again spinning wildly as cancer-related treatment forces the leftist anti-US firebrand to skip another international summit.

• 08 декабря 2012, 12:25

President Hugo Chavez vowed Tuesday to keep supporting Bashar al-Assad, calling him Syria's legitimate president and blaming the United States for the war that has raged on for nearly 19 months.

• 11 октября 2012, 17:21

Hugo Chavez pledged to become a "better president" and work with the opposition after winning a tough re-election battle that betrayed simmering discontent at his socialist revolution.

• 09 октября 2012, 16:58

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez shrugged off cancer and a unified opposition on Sunday to triumph yet again at the ballot box and win another six-year mandate to pursue his oil-funded socialist revolution.

• 08 октября 2012, 10:33

Hundreds of thousands of backers of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles have thronged the streets in Venezuela's capital, echoing his rising threat to President Hugo Chavez's re-election.

• 02 октября 2012, 10:44

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says that if he were a US citizen, he would vote for President Barack Obama in the November 6 presidential election -- and if Obama were Venezuelan, he'd vote for Chavez.

• 01 октября 2012, 17:33

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his rival Henrique Capriles are satisfied with logistical preparations ahead of the arrival of election monitors from the Union of South American Nations.

• 24 сентября 2012, 15:57

Never one to mince his words, President Hugo Chavez is warning of instability or even outright civil war in oil-rich Venezuela if he is not re-elected next month.

• 09 сентября 2012, 10:32

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday became the latest senior official to insist there is no evidence of an alleged massacre of some 80 Yanomami indigenous people.

• 06 сентября 2012, 16:37

The devastating fire that followed an explosion at Venezuela's main oil refinery was still burning strong on Sunday, as President Hugo Chavez surveyed the carnage that killed 41 people.

• 27 августа 2012, 15:02

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has an "irreversible" advantage over his rival, Henrique Capriles, in the upcoming October 7 election.

• 01 августа 2012, 16:18

President Hugo Chavez has a more than 15-point lead on his main rival ahead of Venezuela's October presidential vote, according to the latest survey from pollster Datanalisis.

• 17 июля 2012, 18:11

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday clashed with President Barack Obama over how serious a security threat Iranian ally Venezuela poses to the US.

• 13 июля 2012, 13:27

Firebrand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez insisted Monday that he is "totally" cancer-free and ready to take on what promises to be a tough re-election battle without "physical restrictions."

• 10 июля 2012, 12:41

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday claimed his political rivals have hatched a plot to deny him a victory in the upcoming October 7 presidential vote.

• 05 июля 2012, 10:00