07th
March 2013
Venezuela’s
President Hugo Chavez dead at 58
Venezuela’s
President Hugo Chavez has died, passing away
on Tuesday afternoon. President Chavez had not
appeared in public since he returned to Venezuela
last month after cancer treatment in Cuba.
An
emotional Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s vice
president, made the announcement on Tuesday
evening.
Earlier,
he had said the 58-year-old Venezuelan leader
had a new, severe respiratory infection and
had entered “his most difficult hours”.
In
Tuesday evening’s emotional address, Mr
Maduro said Mr Chavez had died “after
battling a tough illness for nearly two years”. |
