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.

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 ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (ABC) - Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's fiery and controversial socialist president who came to power on wave of popular sentiment and befriended some of the world's most nefarious ...

The Venezuelan president died Tuesday from a massive heart attack. March 7, 2013— -- A heart attack ended up killing Venezuelan president and longtime cancer sufferer Hugo Chavez, a source close ...

The past couple of weeks have played out very strangely in Venezuela. In the span of a few days, we were told that Hugo Chávez was probably dead then probably not then definitely so. But where's the ...

Last night, CNN’s Chilean affiliate reported that Hugo Chávez is not, in fact, recovering in a Venezuelan hospital because he is dead. The report was based on the claims of Guillermo Cochez, until ...

Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias was born on July 28, 1954, in the rural town of Sabaneta in Venezuela’s western plains. He was the son of schoolteacher parents and the second of six brothers. Chavez was a ...

Under the sweltering sun of Venezuela’s Los Llanos, a vast savannah famous for its cowboys and revolutionaries, 60-year-old Adán Chávez speaks passionately to a crowd of red-clad supporters. In his ...

In office for more than 14 years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died at 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. In this photo released Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 by Miraflores Presidential ...

With President Obama in 2009. With his daughters last month. Singing a Mexican ranchera song at a 2005 rally in Caracas, Venezuela Speaking with Fidel Castor during a baseball game in 2000. Chávez as ...

"I mourn a great hero," said Oliver Stone of the Venezuelan president who died on Tuesday after a long bout with cancer. By Rebecca Ford Sean Penn Cannes Film Festival - H 2012 Venezuelan president ...

What a bunch of assholes! Serving celebratory specials for the death of a human being? Well, not really. Hugo Chávez may have personified heartache and headache to millions of Venezuelan citizens, ...