Throngs line up to decide fate of Chavez
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CARACAS -- Venezuelans deciding the fate of Hugo Chavez's presidency thronged polling stations in such overwhelming numbers yesterday that election officials were forced to extend voting hours until midnight. Many voters rose before dawn and lined up for hours to cast their votes on whether to recall Chavez, a populist former paratroop commander whose controversial rule has polarized this oil-rich ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Summoned by bugle calls and the detonations of huge firecrackers, Venezuelans turned out in unprecedented numbers Sunday to vote on whether to force leftist President Hugo Chavez from office.    Some lines at polling places extended for 1.25 miles, stunning even veteran election monitors...
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Venezuela readies for protests as a TV station opposing President Chavez is set to be taken off air at midnight.
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President Hugo Chavez was set to win powers on Tuesday to rule by decree for 18 months so that he can nationalize oil and utility assets and press his drive to turn Venezuela into a socialist state.
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Thousands of government opponents waving Venezuelan flags marched through the capital on Sunday to protest a decision by President Hugo Chavez to pull the plug on an opposition-aligned TV station.
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Hugo Chavez, who has endured a rough political ride since first coming to power in 1998, is the subject of both adulation and loathing both at home and abroad.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Left-wing President Hugo Chavez was seeking a strong mandate for his self-styled revolution on Sunday as Venezuelans went to the polls to decide whether to re-elect the former soldier for six more years.
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Voters cast ballots for governors and mayors Sunday in elections expected to strengthen President Hugo Chavez&#39;s political power two months after he overwhelmingly won a referendum on his rule.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and throngs of his supporters jammed avenues in downtown Caracas on Friday to celebrate the president&#39;s defeat of an August 15 recall referendum.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he would &quot;stay in office until people do not wantit.&quot;. &quot;I will give my life for the hope of people,&quot; Chavez told a mass gathering
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Thousands march to mark the demise of an opposition TV station in Venezuela, as the channel ends broadcasts.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won international approval from supporters and detractors alike Monday on his decisive referendum victory over opponents trying to oust him.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- The line forms every day after dawn at the Spanish Consulate, hundreds of people seeking papers permitting them to abandon Venezuela for new lives in Spain. They say they are filled with despair at President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's growing power, and they appear not to be alone. At other...
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A shock referendum defeat has woken Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez up to an unpleasant truth: an epidemic of violence and failing services threaten his support in slums at the heart of his socialist revolution.
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Hugo Chavez is due to be declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential poll in a ceremony.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez was favored to win re-election on Sunday as Venezuelans decided whether to give the former soldier six more years to broaden his promised socialist revolution.
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Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marched through the capital Friday, commemorating a failed coup attempt he led as an army officer 13 years ago.