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The death of Hugo Chávez, 45th president of Venezuela, was announced by government officials to have been on 5 March 2013 at 16:25 VET (20:55 UTC) in Caracas, Venezuela from cancer at the age of 58. His death triggered a presidential election which was constitutionally required to be called within 30 days.
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías [b] (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː v ɛ z /; Spanish: [ˈuɣo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβes ˈfɾi.as] ⓘ; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002.
Hugo Chevez died from cancer last night after 14 years as President of Venezuela. In the short term, Chavez's death means little for the oil markets, which shrugged off the news. The question now ...
The president is directly elected through a popular vote to a six-year term. Since the 2009 constitutional referendum, any person can be elected to the office an indefinite number of times. Upon the death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent president, the vice president assumes the office. The president must be at least 30 ...
Mi amigo Hugo is a Venezuelan television documentary about Venezuelan president Hugo ... first anniversary of Chávez' death, 5 March 2014. ... Stone "Chavez's most ...
Then-president Hugo Chávez, who she once served as a nurse, had recently died and with the election of Nicolás Maduro, the nation’s politics and relations with the U.S. were in tumult.
World leaders have offered their condolences following the death of former US President Jimmy Carter, who passed away Sunday at the age of 100. ... He had excellent relations with President Hugo ...
[1] [2] The crisis started on 5 March, when, during the celebrations for the first anniversary of the death of former president Hugo Chávez, Maduro publicly announced the breaking of diplomatic and commercial relations with Panama and accused Martinelli of being a "creeping lackey" of the United States. [3]