For a screenwriter who had done time in two obscure rock bands, acknowledging his past with his children took some time.

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Hugo Chavez announces that he will nationalise Venezuela’s gold industry to boost the country’s reserves.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is in good spirits after returning home from Cuba following a second round of cancer treatment there.

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Chavez home after more treatment

HAVANA — A Venezuelan vice president says President Hugo Chavez is recovering well a day after undergoing surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess. Chavez is “very up to date on all issues relating to our country,” Venezuelan Vice President Rafael Ramirez says, adding that he had saw Chavez personally on Friday following the procedure, and again on Saturday. “Comandante Chavez is well, and in the process of recuperation,” he said in comments broadcast on Cuba’s Saturday evening state-run newscast. Read full article > >

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Hugo Chavez’s support for proxy terrorism is a real threat to the Americas, and the U.S. should treat it as such.

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Is there a Chavez terror network on America’s doorstep?

Hugo Chavez’s support for proxy terrorism is a real threat to the Americas, and the U.S. should treat it as such.

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Is there a Chavez terror network on America’s doorstep?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be expecting a call from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi: Chavez has been using the bully pulpit to urge Venezuelan women to resist getting breast implants. Chavez said it was a “monstrous thing” that…

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The Venezuelan political activist Lina Ron – one of president Hugo Chavez’s most radical supporters – dies of a heart attack at 53.

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Venezuela radical Lina Ron dies

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accuses the OAS of interference after its secretary general condemned a law giving him special powers.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shook hands on the sidelines of Brazil’s presidential inauguration this weekend, state media reported.

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Chavez, Clinton have short chat

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shake hands in an apparently amicable encounter at a time of tension between the two countries.

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Chavez, Clinton chat amid tension

The US revokes the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador, the state department says, after President Hugo Chavez rejects the US envoy to Caracas.

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In response to devastating floods in Venezuela that have killed 38 and affected 130,000, the Venezuelan national assembly granted President Hugo Chavez the right to rule by decree for the next 18 months. It is the fourth time Chavez has been given the…

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Chavez Granted ‘Rule by Decree’

Venezuela’s parliament grants wider powers to President Hugo Chavez for 18 months, but his critics say it is a move towards dictatorship.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is moving into a tent given to him by the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi so flood victims can take refuge in his office.

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