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Editors' picks
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Populist leader of Venezuela – a charismatic hero to the poor who denounced capitalism and persecuted his opponents -
Venezuelan leader leaves legacy of literacy and healthcare for poor alongside crumbling infrastructure and dependence on oil
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Video
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Rory Carroll, author of a new biography of Hugo Chávez, looks back at the life of Venezuela's 'commandante', who has died in Caracas, aged 58
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Gallery (21 pictures):
The Venezuelan leader, who has died aged 58, had a colourful presidency and became a hero to millions
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Video
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Venezuela mourns Hugo Chávez, who died after a two-year battle with cancer on Tuesday, at his state funeral in Caracas
Most recent
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11 Sep 2014: Socialist government shores up regional support – after previous attempt was derailed by Chávez's 'devil' speech -
9 Sep 2014: The once-thriving heavy industries of Ciudad Guayana are now starved of investment and hampered by labour disputes
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5 Sep 2014:
Socialist party congress directs prayer to ‘Our Chávez who art in heaven’, drawing church retort that text is ‘untouchable’
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13 Jun 2014:
With Egypt's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, getting on his bike in Cairo, we take a look back at cycling photo ops
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12 Jun 2014: Lack of basic food supplies in country joined by fall in cask production by up to 30% and delayed funerals and burials
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27 May 2014:
Raúl Castro is standing firm beside his embattled ally Nicolás Maduro, but painful memories of the Soviet collapse remain
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9 Apr 2014:
Seumas Milne: Street action is now regularly used with western backing to target elected governments in the interests of elites
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Video
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8 Apr 2014:
Seumas Milne travels to Caracas to meet Nicolás Maduro, the late Hugo Chávez's successor as president of Venezuela
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20 Mar 2014:
Mark Weisbrot: John Kerry’s rhetoric is divorced
from the reality on the ground, where life goes on – even at the barricades
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10 Mar 2014: In San Cristóbal – where an estimated 40% of the town's food is smuggled to Colombia for resale – activists are rebuilding barricades dismantled by the national guard
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6 Mar 2014: Reynaldo Trombetta: The authoritarianism of the Chávez regime was overlooked, but Maduro's government has overseen torture and murder
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4 Mar 2014:
Julia Buxton: A year after Chávez's death, the opposition – by failing to reach out to the poor – has missed a golden opportunity to weaken his successor
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23 Feb 2014: Hugo Chávez's dream world has become a nightmare of shot-down protesters, jailed oppositionists, economic meltdown and a brutal war waged against a defiant middle class
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21 Feb 2014: Message from jail adds to leadership credentials of politician who was little known to outside world until a week ago
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20 Feb 2014:
Government claims protests bear the hallmarks of US-backed coup plot led by jailed opposition leader Leopoldo López
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