Nicolas Maduro, the hand-picked successor of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, was declared the victor in Sunday's presidential election, though the surprisingly close vote may be contested by his rivals.
The guy chosen to be Hugo Chavez's heir in Venezuela isn't letting a double digit lead in the polls stop him from attacking his opponents where it really hurts ahead of the country's election. He said his opponent is related, albeit distantly, to Adolf Hitler.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was accused of rigging plenty of elections in his day, but his successor thinks he might have also decided one very important vote from beyond the grave.
The Argentine Chamber of Deputies got into a little scuffle on Wednesday afternoon after Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named Pope Francis. Weird, right? You'd think they'd be celebrating.
It's just a friend consoling his friend's mother at a funeral, but to Iran's religious conservatives this was a grave offense.
Henrique Capriles, the 40-year-old politician who lost the Venezuelan presidential election to Hugo Chávez last October, did something bold and entered the race to succeed the legendary leader on Sunday.
Dozens of world leaders and diplomats are joining thousands of Venezuelans in the streets of Caracas for the funeral service. Follow it live here, even though you'll have plenty of chances to see the former leader from hereon out.
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The death of Hugo Chavez may have created an opening for Venezuela to alter is relationship with the rest of the world, but will the country be able to change without its leader? Will it want to?
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In the span of a few days, we were told that Venezuela's president was probably dead then probably not then definitely so. But where's the body? Conspiracy theorists are going to have a ball with this.
His death leaves a country and a region deeply divided and confused, but one of the most seemingly complex questions — who's next? — may end up being the easiest to anser: Despite a voluminous opposition movement, his successor looks like it will be Nicolas Maduro.
With the death of Hugo Chavez, George W. Bush and the American right lose perhaps their most effective needler. Ostensibly in service of diplomacy, Chavez showed no fear in posing for photos with a rogue's gallery of world leaders.
The controversial leftist revolutionary who rose to become president of Venezuela had been battling cancer, for which he underwent months of treatment in Cuba before returning home to the country he ignited as much as he divided the rest of the world. Here are the top obituaries, photos, reactions, and news updates from around the globe.
Who this alleged spy actually is — well, that picture may just be coming together, or this could all be a bunch more propaganda in what increasingly appear to be Chavez's final days. But David delMonaco "is en route back to the United States."
He's been defying the odds for months now, but the latest reports on the condition of Venezuelan president suggest he may not be with us much longer.
Venezuela's vice president went on TV Thursday evening to bat back rumors that Hugo Chávez has died. He didn't do much to encourage the Venezuelan people about their president's health, either.
Alex Pareene on Woodward's weird sequester statements, Ezra Klein on better budgeting, Adam Serwer on the Supreme Court's racism blindness, Charles Blow on the Voting Rights Act, and Boris Muñoz on Chavez's would-be successors.
On Wednesday night, one of the more obscure outposts of the CNN empire reported that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had died, citing a pretty sketchy Panamanian source.
There's still no video or solid proof that Hugo Chavez is alive and well, but apparently the Venezuelan president (or someone who has access to his account) has started tweeting again after receiving after receiving his fourth cancer surgery in December.
Matthew Yglesias on the stupidity of sequestration, Caroline Baum on Paul Ryan's deficit elimination plan, Daniel Gross on the GDP report, Erick Erickson on Rubio's immigration play, and Rory Carroll on Venezuela's post-Chavez void.
The world and Venezuela are anxiously awaiting for Hugo Chavez's first public appearance since fleeing to Cuba for cancer treatment last year. That's why the Spanish paper El Pais decided to run a picture of what they thought was an intubated Chavez.
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Rebecca Dana on Current TV, Paul Krugman on budget bickering, Jeremy Warner on robotic economic growth, Tim Padgett on Venezuela's ailing leader, and William Pesek on India's rape case.
Venezuelan officials have finally offered some news on the health of President Hugo Chavez, saying he has "respiratory insufficiency" due to a severe lung infection.
In a rough weekend for world leaders' health, Hugo Chavez ran up against "new complications" after his cancer surgery and remains in "delicate" condition in Cuba.
Harold Meyerson on the downside of right-to-work, Adam Ozimek on the upside of right-to-work, Maureen Dowd on Zero Dark Thirty, Francisco Toro on Venezuela after Chavez, and Soner Cagaptay on Turkey.
The normally upbeat Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is taking his latest cancer diagnosis noticeably more serious than he did the last one. All signs are pointing to his health failing him very, very soon.
Once again, Venezuela has elected Hugo Chavez as its president. That means the country's won six more years of fun tweets, questionable foreign policy and, perhaps, a narrow escape from civil war.
For weeks -- weeks! -- we've waited with bated breath to see who Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would endorse in the American presidential race. We finally have our answer.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Dan Rather has a disturbing obsession with death, the BBC honors Queen Elizabeth and "bullets of treachery" explain the massacre in Syria.
Just getting home from his latest round of cancer treatment, the last thing Hugo Chavez probably expected was a crossword puzzle conspiracy that apparently threatened his brother's life.
Meet Nelson Boracanda, the Venezuelan journalist who, depending on who you ask, is either a "lying, cocaine-addicted, homosexual son of a bitch" or is the only guy outside of Chavez's circle of his cronies who knows just how bad the socialist leader's cancer really is.
Yep, it's another controversial statement from Hugo Chavez -- but he really seems to dial up the Nut-O-Meter to 11 with this cancer conspiracy theory.
Newt Gingrich has picked up the support of Hollywood's noted crazy guy Gary Busey and racial-slur ex-MLB pitcher John Rocker, while Barack Obama picked up the support of Muammar Qaddafi (before ordering the attacks that lead to his death), while Ron Paul has the random drunk guy vote locked down.
Clothing retailer Benetton has launched another shock-ad campaign that aims to sell more of their high-end clothes folks with Photoshopped images of world leaders playing tonsil hockey.
Carlos the Jackal heads to his second trial in Paris on Monday, but the heads of state -- Qaddafi, Assad, Hussein -- who backed his brand of revolutionary international terrorism have thinned dramatically since he was first convicted.
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
The president wants to take advantage of his country's large reserves while prices are still rising
The Venezuelan president says he's cancer-free and ready for another 20 years in office
His Twitter feed is his biggest presence at home while he recuperates in Cuba
Government officials report he'll run in 2012 election despite health concerns
Reveals he had a tumor the size of a baseball removed in June
Following his cancer treatment in Cuba, thousands of supporters celebrated in Caracas
In a speech he says he had surgery in Cuba to remove a cancerous tumor
After three weeks in Cuba, the Venezuelan president has canceled a regional summit
The Venezuelan president caught up with an old friend while in Cuba for treatment
On Obama and gay marriage, bringing Assad to the Hague and Chavez's health
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