Colonel Lockjaw played a very different role when he visited Caracas to see Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the Mexican ...

Using Rhetoric to Defend Legacy and Secure Power. Students analyze how Nicolás Maduro uses language to transform Hugo Chávez from a former presiden ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died on Tuesday after a two-year bout with cancer, a 14-year rule, three elections, and one coup attempt. The controversial leader, famous for his anti-imperialist ...

The rise and fall of a one-time Caracas bus driver to a mentee of the late Hugo Chávez to an autocrat overthrown and extracted by the United States.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This isn’t surprising. Chávez was a contradictory figure: a champion of the poor who ...

Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Venezuela have fallen to pieces. March 6, 2013— -- The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez removes one of the United States' foremost geopolitical foes ...

To fully grasp from a U.S. perspective Hugo Chávez’s significance for Venezuela and Latin America, and the sorrow his death provoked in millions of people, is not an easy task. Yet without a serious, ...

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.

After losing the 2020 presidential election, which was certified by the Electoral College on Dec. 14, outgoing President Donald Trump has waged a campaign of disinformation about election interference ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Back in Cuba for his third cancer operation, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is already planning for a fatal future, designating vice president as his political heir. The man ...

On December 2, 2007, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez suffered his first electoral setback. By a slender margin, voters rejected a package of constitutional reforms that would have essentially granted ...

Biographers tell us that Hugo Chávez trained for a radical career ever since childhood, though no one guessed he would be president. He learned Marx and Machiavelli from a neighborhood historian but ...