Chavez's Cancer Stand-In
CARACAS, Venezuela -- After nearly a year of cancer treatment that has forced President Hugo Chavez to step back from the spotlight, a burly former bu...
CARACAS, Venezuela -- After nearly a year of cancer treatment that has forced President Hugo Chavez to step back from the spotlight, a burly former bu...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 05.07.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has spent much of his career praising the socialist ideas of famed atheists such as Karl M...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 04.24.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reappeared on television Monday after an eight-day silence, scoffing at rumors that his he...
Reuters | Posted 04.24.2012
By Anthony Boadle CARACAS, April 23 (Reuters) - Officials in President Hugo Chavez's government denied rumors that the leftist leader ...
AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 04.12.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela -- With less than six months left until Election Day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has hardly hit the campaign trail. Instead, ...
AP | JORGE RUEDA | Posted 04.09.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew back to Cuba late Saturday for another round of radiation therapy, telling his countrymen ...
AP | By JORGE RUEDA | Posted 04.05.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attended Mass with family Thursday after returning from his latest round of radiation ther...
AP | JORGE RUEDA | Posted 05.31.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled to Cuba on Saturday for another round of cancer treatment, saying he will be in H...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 05.29.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — A new poll finds that more than 44 percent of respondents in Venezuela say they would vote for President Hugo Chavez, givin...
AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 05.25.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he has begun radiation therapy in Cuba as part of cancer treatment one mo...
AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 05.16.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home Friday nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba, saying he...
AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 05.11.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he plans to return home this week from Cuba and has been recovering smoot...
Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012
By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS, March 4 (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said he will need radiation treatment for can...
AP | Posted 05.04.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez revealed Sunday that a new tumor recently removed from his pelvic region was of the same ...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 05.02.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Friday he's recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba, and the first photographs of the Vene...
AP | By PETER ORSI and VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 04.26.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's military high command reaffirmed its loyalty to President Hugo Chavez on Saturday in a public show of support a day ...
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 04.25.2012
SAO PAULO (AP) — As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flies to Cuba Friday for surgery to remove a possibly cancerous growth, top doctors say he coul...
AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 04.24.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — For someone who's ill, President Hugo Chavez didn't show it Thursday as he launched into full-blown campaign mode on his l...
Posted 04.23.2012
As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announces that he is returning to Cuba for cancer treatment, HuffPost World takes a look at other world leaders wh...
Reuters | Posted 04.23.2012
By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Wallis CARACAS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cance...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 04.22.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez has never been one to share decision-making authority. Now, the voluble socialist strongman and acer...
AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 03.09.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resumed his weekly television and radio program Sunday after a hiatus of seven months due ...
The Huffington Post | Ray Sanchez | Posted 12.28.2011
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's thyroid cancer makes her the latest in a series of Latin American leaders to be diagnosed with cancer -- a re...
Joel D. Hirst | Posted 01.22.2012
On October 20th President Hugo Chavez declared himself free of cancer, however reports filtering out of Venezuela tell a different story regarding the physical condition of the bombastic president.
AP | Posted 12.20.2011
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he is cancer-free, citing a series of medical exams in Cuba that showed no recurrence...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 05.17.2012