These were days of marches. Huge marches. That wrapped themselves around the capital, Caracas And, in particular, the higher-class eastern side of the city. It was April 2002. President Hugo Chavez ...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez celebrated Tuesday's anniversary of a 1992 coup attempt that launched his political career while opposition leaders trying to oust him mourned those killed ...

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.

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, ...

Barbara Walters interviews Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. March 15, 2007 — -- ABC News' Barbara Walters sits down with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela for an interview in which Chavez ...

Born in poverty, Hugo Chávez rose through the military and survived a failed coup to become one of the most influential figures in Latin America. The socialist leader, a demagogic populist who ...

MARACAY, Venezuela -- As gasoline, food and patience run low in Venezuela's punishing 19-day-old national strike, President Hugo Chavez's most ardent political opponents have begun making private ...

CARACAS, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday he will pardon opponents accused of participating in a coup that ousted him briefly five years ago, a conciliatory move ...

CARACAS, April 13 (Reuters) - Hugo Chavez loyalists celebrated on Saturday a milestone in the late leader's socialist revolution ahead of Venezuela's presidential election, irking the opposition that ...

Hugo Chavez speaks to people gathered at the Plaza Caracas on Feb. 4, 1998 in Caracas, Venezuela during celebrations for the anniverary of the 1992 coup. A ban on visiting the United States and the ...

Chavez repeatedly proved himself a political survivor. As an army paratroop commander, he led a failed coup in 1992, then was pardoned and elected president in 1998. He survived a coup against his own ...