Chavez

During his time as president, Hugo Chavez's supporters argued that he gave Venezuelans the sense of national pride.

Opposition leaders have been calling for more information about Chavez's health, which has been a state secret.

Maradona told journalists at the presidential palace as he stood alongside Chavez. "I'm with him until death. "

Chavez has also undermined his external relations on a number of fronts - with Brazil, Colombia and Spain to name just a few.

He said the nature of Chavez's visit to Cuba with his previous trip to Ecuador, Brazil and the same.

Of people could not understand, Chavez does not always seem to leave some feelings to each other.

A doctor who said the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had less than two years to live has fled the country, saying he feared for his life.

The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has said he's free from cancer after returning home from Cuba, where he had a checkup.

However, a US State Department spokesman said Washington failed to see why President Chavez needed to purchase more arms.

While taking a familiar pop at the United States, Chavez was more conciliatory towards Spain.

While taking a familiar pop at the United States, Chavez was more conciliatory toward Spain.

Cesar Chavez was born in North Gila Valley, near Yuma, Arizona. He was one of six children.

The animosity between the two Venezuelan leaders dates back to at least 1992, when Mr. Chavez led a failed coup attempt against Mr. Perez.

Chavez proposed peace plan for the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said the initiative "under study. " U. S.

Earlier, President Chavez issued an upbeat message ahead of a second day of chemotherapy treatment, saying he would win his battle for life.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has predicted two years of living, but doctors have fled abroad, he claimed that his life is threatened.

Mr. Zelaya aligned himself with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and traveled frequently to meet with him.

Mm A remark seems to imply that Chavez returned to date later than originally anticipated.

Venezuela's Chavez family in the official media source for the news reports, the President will return in two weeks in Caracas.

Its upcoming election could show whether the influence of Chavez as the most vocal critic of the US is now in decline.

Chavez, leader of a self-described socialist revolution, is wildly popular among the nation's majority poor.

This election was the closest for Chavez since he first came into power.

During the inspection of military bases, Chavez did not forget the rumor.

But never one to lie down, Chavez said later the Spanish had come out of the verbal spat looking bad after the king lost his composure.

President Chavez' diplomatic announcement came near the end of day-long hemispheric consultations at the fifth Summit of the Americas.

Chavez wanted reforms to allow him to be re-elected indefinitely as president and greatly expand his power.

The doctor said last week that Mr Chavez had a very aggressive form of cancer.

Hugo Chavez did not invent the disaffected middle and lower class of Venezuela. He merely led them.

Chavez went on to become a hero for social justice leading the United Farmworkers Union, which won fair labor contracts with the growers.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez received the biggest round of applause in the assembly hall Thursday when he scolded the United States.

President Chavez is today welcoming Ecuador into a regional organization that seeks to resist US influence in Latin America.

Both leaders denied the charge, with the Argentinean president suggesting it was part of a U. S. plot to embarrass Chavez.

Mr. Chavez said he discussed using the loans for regional development as a way to counter U. S. influence in the region.

Chavez was reportedly accompanied by two small dogs and a very large painting of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar.

Mr. Chavez said his socialist government is going to apply strict quotas regarding the number and types of vehicles auto makers can produce.

Chavez has said he respects the choice of the voters who voted against him.

Chavez has said the country plans to buy weaponry from Russia in response to an increase in US military personnel in neighboring Colombia.

After the meeting, Dier Ma told the media that Chavez's visit will further enhance the strategic partnership between the two countries.

But polarization, which has always been part of Venezuelan society, has only grown more intense under Chavez.

Citing comments by Clinton in Brazil, Chavez said she was proving to be equally aggressive.

Chavez said on Sunday he was waiting for guerrilla leaders to communicate with him.

South Korea's Kim Dae-jung and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez read him in jail.

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has sent troops to take over oil service companies as he tightens his grip on the economy.

Chavez reiterated earlier threats to take over Polar if the company halts its corn flour production.

But Hugo Chavez had what most other Latin Americans leftists did not, oil.

Chavez's rhetoric often named the United States or multi-national coorperation, it invoked the promise of a socialist Utopia.

Initial results indicate the Socialist party of President Hugo Chavez claimed at least 90 seats in the National Assembly.

Mr. Chavez dedicated the vote result to all of Venezuela's children, saying it was a victory for the future and for socialism.

A large inflatable bust of Chavez with his arms outstretched lay face-down and half-deflated on an empty stage.

Venezuela's top-selling toy this Christmas was an action doll figure of President Hugo Chavez.

An IMF official in Washington said the institution wouldn't comment on Mr. Chavez's remarks.

The price of his socialist agenda, Hugo Chavez himself, presidential term limits were abolished.

The cancer-stricken leader last week joked that he would soon resemble famed Hollywood actor Yul Brynner, calling himself 'Yul Chavez. '

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vows to defend Bolivia if there is an attempt to topple President Evo Morales .

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after having what he says was his final round of chemotherapy for cancer.

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he's travelling to Cuba for a health checkup four months after he had surgery for cancer there.

President Chavez spoke to thousands of supporters shortly after the release of results showing a clear victory for the reform plan. Mr.

Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor activist and leader of the United Farm Workers.

As he flew here on Air Force One, Bush's national security adviser brushed aside Chavez's provocations.

In Venezuela, Chavez said he was not serious about an earlier threat to cut oil sales to the US, but also threatened to sue Exxon Mobil.

Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

The measure will allow Mr. Chavez to stay in power as long as he keeps winning elections.

Domestically, Mr. Chavez leaves behind a deeply divided country with an economy in disarray, barely kept afloat by high oil prices.

China and Venezuela maintain frequent high-level exchanges and we welcome President Chavez to China again at a time convenient to both.

Chavez later told a story of how he had invited Ross to meet local men at his house with the idea of intimidating Ross and scaring him off.

AP reporter Miao Shu, Chavez does not walk a bit, his face pale than usual.

You probably have heard of Cesar Chavez (an "Amazing American" ), a famous labor leader who fought for rights for his fellow farm workers.

The body of Hugo Chavez has been laid to rest at a military museum in Venezuela's capital, Caracas.

But after close initial cooperation, Chavez and Washington ally Uribe have bickered over the Venezuelan's mediation.

Committee opposition claims that Chavez did not have cancer, a move just to gain sympathy, to seek re-election in 2012.

As the fighting raged, he and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez were ordered to remain with a Humvee outside the battle zone.

and now chavez is very slow to get up as he was just blasted to the turf .

Chavez's popularity has suffered a decline of 12 percentage points over the past year and a half, Cabrera told The Associated Press.

Workers in the NFWA (formed by Chavez and Huerta ) were asked not to work for the Delano grape growers.

Gadhafi is reportedly close to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who has blasted the coalition attacks on Libya.

The leftist Venezuelan president's brother, Education Minister Adan Chavez, was also seen in the video visiting Castro.

'We don't only have oil wealth, we have here one of the largest reserves of gold in the world, ' Mr. Chavez said.

But after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was elected and began a series of social programs called "missions, " Mr. Ramirez's life changed.

It is as well for Mr Chavez that nobody has managed to apply a "just price" to oil.

Early Thursday, Mr. Chavez called state television to quash the report, saying he was enjoying his first cup of coffee of the day.

Chavez and his United Farm Workers union battled California grape growers by holding nonviolent protests.

Colombian officials say documents found during the fighting show that Venezuelan President Chavez paid $300 million to support those rebels.

Later in the video, Chavez was even more optimistic, saying Castro had already won the battle to recover his health.

Chavez, like the camera in the real world of political opponents and "fire" , yet still in the micro-Bo "poison tongue" style.

With credit-for-oil deals with China, it seems unlikely Mr. Chavez will be returning Venezuela to the arms of the IMF anytime soon.

Chavez made a televised speech that day, talking about candidates for the new U. S. ambassador to Venezuela.

President Chavez arrived at Caracas's international airport in the early hours of Monday morning.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his battle against cancer is advancing after he returned from a third round of radiotherapy in Cuba.

Chavez, a former soldier, is well-known for fiery speeches - often aimed at the administration of US President George W. Bush.

Leaders from Latin America and beyond are gathering in the Venezuelan capital Caracas for the funeral of President Hugo Chavez.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to Cuba for further cancer treatment on Saturday.

Chavez was reelected over the weekend, he'll serve another 6-year-term as the leader of the Venezuela.

Mr Chavez, who's also had chemotherapy, said tests would determine if any cancerous cells remained in his body.

CHAVEZ: First of all, Bush has called me worse: tyrant, populist dictator, drug trafficker, to name a few.

Meanwhile, the rise in the price of oil has encouraged Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to preach and fund anti-Americanism around Latin America.

Cuban news agency earlier reported that Chavez said he in the second postoperative recovery was good, but can not be hurried.

The dispute has escalated into an operatic free-for-all, including allegations of jealousy, vengeance and machinations by Mr. Chavez.

'They [China] have provided $8 billion, and we're talking about them bumping that up to near $20 billion, ' Mr. Chavez said.

Cesar Chavez spent most of his life working on farms in California, where pay was low and comforts were few.

Mr. Chavez's Moscow agenda includes the possible purchase of Russian diesel-electric submarines, armed with missiles.

Mr. Bush says failing to approve that agreement this year would embolden U. S. adversaries , including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez .

Like Chavez, Young worked on issues of poverty and injustice with honesty, understanding and nonviolent actions.

'They'll have to fulfill [the quotas], and if not, they can get out, ' Mr. Chavez said during a televised address.

Today, the NED is well known for backing counterrevolutionary forces in Cuba and right-wing opponents of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

In June, Chavez announced his surgery in Cuba, cut off cancer, but he has not been that he is suffering from cancer.

Chavez said other regional leaders should beware, including his close ally, Bolivian President Evo Morales.

Hero or authoritarian, champion of the poor or autocrat, Chavez represented many things to many people.

Navarrete Chavez, who 10 years ago for treatment, and with the Chavez family and medical team are linked.

The reform allows Mr. Chavez to seek re-election for a third term in a planned 2012 vote.

In his TV appearance Monday, Mr. Chavez also condemned the attacks on Libya and affirmed his full support of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez says he will veto any final declaration at the Summit of the Americas because Cuba's been excluded.

On Tuesday, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced the death of President Chavez.

The legislature, which is dominated by Chavez allies, is expected to give final approval to the measure before the end of the week.

Venezuela expelled two activists for criticizing President Chavez's human rights record.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez confirmed on Wednesday what many in his country suspected: He has cancer.

There's a woman named Esther Chavez who I met in Juarez, Mexico.

The droughts spurred Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency in February.

The president and his advisers also hoped his visit would offset the growing influence of leftist leaders, such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

Venezuela's Chavez confirms military deployment along border with Colombia .

The documents were signed after Vice President Zeng held talks with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will have further medical treatment in Cuba.

President Chavez is welcome to visit China. We need to further discuss with Venezuela on the date and agenda of the visit.

Q: According to reports, Venezuelan President Chavez will visit China before the end of this year. Please confirm.

Chavez sparred with Bush the previous day over Tehran's nuclear program but avoided any personal insults.

Wen is, however, well ahead of such notables as George W. Bush and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Although Chavez compared initially great treasure alliance German Avis also to miss a scale.

On Thursday, President Chavez returned from a medical checkup in Cuba, saying he was cured.

Venezuelans have cast their ballots to elect a new president to succeed Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer last month.

Chavez has plans for more weapons deals with neighboring Belarus, where he flies after his visit to Russia. He then continues to Iran.

Over the past 10 years, Mr. Chavez has redirected significant portions of government revenue from oil sales into social programs.

The campaign was between Chavez and opposition leader Henrique Capriles.

His critics argued that Chavez ruined his country's economy and restricted people's liberties.

Mr. Chavez, who has been in power for more than a decade, has recently stepped up a campaign against critics of his socialist government.

Mr. Chavez champions these ideas, which will take effect in January, as ways to combat inflation.

Gaddafi's other invitation for exile comes from Venezuela's dying president, Hugo Chavez.

According to reports, 57-year-old Chavez since the start of chemotherapy hair loss, therefore shaved hair.

Chavez last week announced an increase in the regulated prices of corn and sorghum.

It says the report was a political move against the government of President Hugo Chavez.

But analysis refers to are still too few people consider the possibility of leaving Chavez.

Howard Elias, Vice President Yami Serrano said Chavez will be "long-term active" in the political arena.

Also, the channel has maintained a critical and propagandistic editorial line against the government of Hugo Chavez.

In 2005, Chavez suspended his country's cooperation with the DEA, similarly accusing its agents of espionage.

President Hugo Chavez has returned home to Venezuela from Cuba, where he admitted having cancer surgery.

Sunday's vote outcome was a vindication for Mr. Chavez, who lost a December 2007 poll.

It really doesn't matter, though, because Cotto can probably take a 100 beatings and still make short work of Chavez Jr.

Chavez was annoyed at first when Ross asked him to become a leader.

Chavez passed away late Tuesday afternoon in hospital in the capital, Caracas.

Venezuela's Chavez doctors last week made a dying statement.

Mr. Chavez says that Iran has the right to a peaceful atomic energy industry because it is a sovereign state.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said it was irresponsible to create more deaths and more war.

Chavez, who is on television on average 40 hours a week, acknowledges he finds it difficult to keep his mouth closed.

It doesn't matter how you slice it, Chavez has mismanaged the Venezuelan economy, and particularly the oil industry.

Mr. Chavez also made several trips to visit the ailing leader, after Mr. Castro underwent stomach surgery in 2006.

Chavez added: "Too many rumors you want to use my body . . . situation is grim, but we are to climb. "

Even Venezuela looked shaky, given the current health of Hugo Chavez.

The funeral for Venezuela President Hugo Chavez is underway.

Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up.

In 1998, Hugo Chavez was himself elected president after promising to end poverty and corruption.

And she fears if they're sent to Venezuela, Mr. Chavez will get hold of them and destroy them.

So it's no wonder his friends and foes had very different tastes on the Chavez legacy.

However Miss Chavez blamed the embassy for not helping her end her vigil.

The window which may open at present in the Americas China has 2 Chavez is at least, but also one has believed to the Chinese friendly Cuba.

Reported that, in a statement from the Foreign Minister, we can see Chavez's condition should not light.

All of them hosted by Washington's most outspoken regional critic Hugo Chavez.

Chavez, 56, 8th of this month after the visit to Brazil and Ecuador, arrived in Havana, Cuba, 10, underwent surgery for pelvic abscess.

Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit.

Mr. Chavez says he will meet with Mr. Castro before attending a conference on oil in the Caribbean area.

"They're really hot and they're a great tool for homeowners to retrofit homes, " Chavez said.

As to President Chavez's visit to China, I have no specific information to offer.

Venezuelan students attend an event in which President Hugo Chavez delivered to them scholarships, in Caracas May 2, 2006.

Chavez drew tentative giggles at times from the audience, but also some applause when he called Bush the devil.

Since Chavez became president in 1999 he has nationalized the domestic energy and oil industries.

It says Latin leaders such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have linked the region's bad rainy seasons and flooding to climate change.

President Chavez said that he recently received a letter from Mr Castro, but gave no further details on the state of his health.

In the Venezuelan capital, leave the military hospital, Chavez jumped up and make a boxing pose.

By keeping your look current, says Chavez, you also look younger and more modern.

Chavez's popularity has remained steady in the past decade, starting with massive support after a coup attempt in 2002.

Hugo Chavez died after a lengthy fight with cancer.

Mr. Chavez still hasn't told Venezuelans what kind of cancer he has, nor any prognosis.

57-year-old Chavez said in Havana, he will be vice president, ministers and military leaders maintain close contact.

Chavez is a firm believer in socialism, that's when the government controls its country's businesses.

Controversy plays a large role in Chavez's legacy.

This week marks 10 years since Chavez was inaugurated.

Same person who's held that title since 1999, his name is Hugo Chavez.

It seems that there are mothers here who, instead of putting their kids to sleep with cartoons, put them to sleep with Chavez.

For their own health, Chavez no detailed description.

BEIJING, Oct. 17, according to foreign reports, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Cuba Local 16 left.

Maria Ortega said she voted for Maduro because that is what President Chavez wanted.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has died aged 58, after 14 years in power.

Mexico's Attorney General Arturo Chavez has resigned after 18 months in the job.

Mr. Chavez said this should climb to more than 500, 000 barrels a day next year and to 1 million barrels by 2012.

In order to survive, Cesar Chavez and his family became migrant farm workers, traveling around California to find work.

'We'll take it, we'll expropriate it, we'll pay them what it's worth and immediately call on the Chinese, ' Mr. Chavez said.

And Esther Chavez was a brilliant accountant in Mexico City, she was 72 years old, and she was planning to retire.

Gaddafi sent a letter expressing support for Chavez's thanks.

'This is my new look, ' Mr. Chavez said in broken English during a televised appearance from the Miraflores presidential palace.

Chavez also said that a fire at that time unusual.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a long struggle with cancer. He was 58 years old.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later. )

Representative of Latin-American Leftist Leaders Hugo Chavez

In Venezuela people say NO to Chavez

Chavez replied "Go to hell! " (See photo)