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When President Hugo Chávez announced that he was traveling once more to Cuba for another surgery to battle cancer, he left Venezuela in the hands of one of his most trusted confidants. Nicolás ...
President Hugo Chávez has named Vice President Nicolas Maduro as the heir of his self-styled socialist revolution should cancer force him out of office. He urged Venezuelans to vote for Maduro in ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — In his last televised message before dying of cancer, the late President Hugo Chávez told Venezuelans to choose Nicolás Maduro as his successor, promising that the leftist ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — When the news came of Hugo Chávez's death, it was delivered by the man he selected as his heir, Vice President Nicolás Maduro. Chávez anointed Maduro, a former bus driver ...
An intensely loyal 50-year-old former bus driver, Nicolás Maduro had been foreign minister since 2006 until Chávez tapped him as his vice president three days after winning re-election on Oct. 7 ...
Nicolás Maduro has survived an almost impossible litany of threats since becoming the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's political heir in 2013 Stay up to date with notifications from The ...
Hugo Chávez, who died on Tuesday at 58, rose from poverty in a dirt-floor adobe house to unrivaled influence in Venezuela as its president, consolidating power and wielding the country’s oil ...
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Anti-government activists across Venezuela are toppling giant statues of Hugo Chávez to express their anger over the alleged stealing of an election by the late ...
Venezuelans still miss Chavez, want Maduro to do 'better' President Hugo Chávez told Venezuelans to choose Nicolás Maduro as his successor during his last televised message before dying of cancer ...