Venezuela President Hugo Chavez Dead at 58

Venezuela’s 58-year-old President Hugo Chavez has been confirmed dead this afternoon. Chavez made a surprise homecoming two weeks ago with none of the celebration that accompanied previous returns from treatment in Havana… He hasn't appeared in public since.

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No lost tears here…

AubreyJ………

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Why Venezuela Turned on Hugo Chavez

Until recently, Venezuela's opposition was so weak and fragmented it seemed unable to even fathom an electoral victory. But, in the early morning hours on Monday, it sealed a surprising triumph over the constitutional reform proposal of a President who, in nine years, had never lost an election. Scrambling to explain this aberration in a land where Hugo Chavez dominates the political landscape, many political observers point to the thousands of university students, who, dormant until this year, clogged the streets to protest the reform in the weeks leading up to the vote...
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Read the story in full at the Middle East Online website...
CNN sued for linking Chavez to Al-Qaeda