The former Venezuelan spymaster admits guilt in Manhattan court to trafficking cocaine with Colombian rebels and conspiring ...

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and outsmarted his rivals time and again ...

Leer en Español The commander of this barracks is dead: a former president whose followers insist “still lives.” Welcome to the tomb of Hugo Chávez.

LIMA, Peru — The doubts began even before the official announcement that Hugo Chavez had finally lost his fight with cancer on March 5, 2013. Venezuela’s domineering socialist president had ...

On top of that, Hugo’s cousin Asdrúbal Chávez is Vice President of state oil company PDVSA and his son-in-law Jorge Arreaza, 39 is the country’s Vice President.

As Hugo Chávez’s illness entered its final stage, I began pondering his afterlife. He seemed destined for immediate sanctification, the sort of quasi-religious elevation that greeted Evita ...

Hugo Chávez – the man for whom Pre-sident George W. Bush was the devil, the man who famously declared he had “smelled sulfur” in 2006 after Bush had finished speaking from that very same podium at the ...

Chavez leaves behind a political movement in control of a nation that human rights activist Liliana Ortega, director of the nongovernmental group COFAVIC, describes as a badly deteriorated state ...

Cancer is a terrible way to die, even for someone as unattractive as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Still, one wonders at those who rushed to offer their condolences. Such as the profoundly ...

With her friend President Hugo Chavez dead, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner came to Venezuela dressed in black and ready to mourn. Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former rebel turned ...

Hugo Chavez Dead at 58: Good Riddance! | RealClearPoliticsAll one needs to know about Hugo Chávez's poisonous political legacy can be determined from the circumstances in which he died. Or how ...