#1 Click this link to see 2009 News Photos page --> 04/20/2009

Obummer shakes hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who is presenting the U.S. leader with a book called: The Open Veins of Latin America by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. Latin American leaders - including fierce U.S. critics - hailed Obummer and his vow to start a new era in ties with them, at a Summit of the Americas underway in Trinidad and Tobago.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/10/2012 #2

President Hugo Chavez defended his close ally Iranian President Mahmoud AhmaDickHead, on January 9th, as tensions rose with the U.S. over Tehran’s nuclear program and a death sentence against an American man convicted of working for the CIA. The two leaders met in Caracas on the first leg of a four nation tour that will also take AhmaDickHead to Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/04/2012 #1

Venezuela publishes photos of Chavez with Fidel. Venezuela published photographs on Friday of President Hugo Chavez chatting with Cuba’s Fidel Castro and walking in a hospital as he recovers from cancer surgery on the Communist led island.

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías   #HugoChavez Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz  #FidelCastro MjL

#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/10/2012 #3

Hugo Chavez’s cancer battle. A look at the Venezuelan president’s year-long battle with cancer and his health since a malignant, baseball-sized tumor had been removed from his pelvis.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/12/2012 #1

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez waves to the crowd while riding atop a truck upon his arrival to the elections office in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, June 11th, 2012. Chavez rallied thousands of his supporters wearing his signature red beret and blowing kisses to the crowd as he formalized his presidential candidacy and launched his re-election bid.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/08/2012 #2

Hugo Chavez waves the national flag while celebrating from a balcony at Miraflores Palace in Caracas October 7th, 2012. Venezuela’s socialist President Chavez won re-election in Sunday’s vote with 54% of the ballot to beat opposition challenger Henrique Capriles.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/06/2013 #1

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez wears an army uniform and the red beret of his parachute regiment while attending a military parade in Caracas in this April 13th, 2005 file photo. Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader’s fourteen-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech on March 5th, 2013.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/08/2013 #4

Supporters of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez arrive to view his body in state at the Military Academy in Caracas. Venezuelans flocked to pay tribute to Chavez two days after he died.

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#9 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/06/2021 #14

In 1998, in Venezuela, former Lt. Col. Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías , who had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier, was elected president. #HugoChavez

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#10 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/05/2022 #14

In 2013, Venezuelan politician Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías died at age 58. #HugoChavez

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#11 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/04/2022 #15

In 2011, Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías made a surprise return to his country after undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba. #HugoChavez

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#12 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/16/2022 #10

In 2011, Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías left his country for Cuba to begin chemotherapy, vowing to win his fight against cancer and calling for his political allies to stay united in his absence. (Chavez, who would undergo additional cancer surgery and treatment in Cuba, died in March 2013.) #HugoChavez

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#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/31/2022 #2

Caracas, Venezuela • Supporters of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez bring down an inflatable doll of Chavez during a commemoration of what would have been the leader’s 68th birthday, at the 23 de Enero neighborhood.

And the U.S. recognizes CIA plant Juan Guaidó as President. Juan Gerardo Antonio Guaidó Márquez  #JuanGuaido Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías   #HugoChavez MjL

#14 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/28/2025 #10

In 1954, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was born in his paternal grandmother Rosa Inés Chávez’s home, a modest three-room house located in the rural village Sabaneta, Barinas State, Venezuela. #HugoChavez

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