Hugo Chavez Venezuela

Chavez Returns Home

AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 05.12.2012

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home Friday after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba, saying his latest round of radi...

Chavez Describes Radiation Therapy As 'Rough'

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...

'I'm Clinging To Life'

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...

Chavez Headed Back To Cuba For Cancer Treatment

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...

Chavez Tweets He's Coming Home

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...

Hugo Chavez Coming Home To Venezuela

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...

Chavez Recovering From Cancer Surgery

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...

Chavez: 'We're Here In Battle'

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live communication with his country's news media in nearly a week Thursday,...

'I Will Live! I Will Live!'

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...

Chavez Announces Government Will Seize Houses On Caribbean Island

AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 12.07.2011

CARACAS, Venezuela — Most residents of Venezuela's Los Roques archipelago don't seem concerned by President Hugo Chavez's announcement that his ...

Hugo Chavez Might Face Tough Competition In Upcoming Elections

AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 11.10.2011

LA RAIZA, Venezuela — The rival who could pose the greatest threat to President Hugo Chavez may be the only politician in Venezuela who almost n...

Chavez: 'I Will Not Go To Cuba For Chemotherapy This Time'

AP | Posted 10.27.2011

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he will undergo his next round of chemotherapy in Venezuela instead of Cuba, wher...

Chavez: Libyan Rebels Are 'Group Of Terrorists'

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that Venezuela will continue to recognize Moammar Gadhafi as the leader of Libya and wil...

Chavez Popularity Slips In Venezuela: Polls

AP | IAN JAMES | Posted 05.25.2011

CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez's support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagna...

Chavez Aids Antigua After Stanford Fraud Scandal

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

The tiny Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda, still reeling from the fraud scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, on Thursday found ...