The socialist leader had been in power since 1998. March 5, 2013— -- Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died today at 4:25 p.m., Caracas time, according to Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro has survived predictions and ridicule, but along the way, Venezuela lost millions of inhabitants, 72% of its economy, ...

Barbara Walters interviews Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. March 15, 2007 — -- ABC News' Barbara Walters sits down with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela for an interview in which Chavez ...

1975 – Joins Venezuela’s Army. 1990 – Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan Army. February 4, 1992-March 26, 1994 – Is imprisoned for a coup attempt against President Carlos Andres Perez. 1994 – Forms ...

Like his idol, Fidel Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was one of the most garrulous and pugnacious leaders Latin America has ever known. That makes his death in Caracas today, March 5, at age ...

Following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, scores of mourners took to the streets of Caracas to mourn his death. Chavez died at 58 following after a battle with cancer. Seven days of ...

Venezuela’s government has announced that it plans to embalm the body of recently deceased leader Hugo Chavez, so that it may displayed in a glass coffin “eternally” and inspire Venezuelans to keep ...

First reported by the Dallas Express, the letter is addressed to President Donald Trump, with Carvajal saying he wrote it to ...

In early 1999, Chavez was sometimes passed off as a throwback out of step with the rest of the region. Today the Venezuelan president looks more like the beginning of a fresh chapter on populism in ...

Hugo Chávez, the controversial leftist revolutionary who rose to become president of Venezuela on failed promises of elevating the poor, died on Tuesday afternoon, according to his vice president and ...