Shall we stuff the president?
As the Venezuelans commit to embalming Hugo Chavez, Jon Snow suggests they should take note of what has happened to other great men – stuffing a President doesn’t do him any good in the long run.
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As the Venezuelans commit to embalming Hugo Chavez, Jon Snow suggests they should take note of what has happened to other great men – stuffing a President doesn’t do him any good in the long run.
At least two dozen heads of state are attending Hugo Chavez’s funeral during an outpouring of grief for the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader.
A combination of Venezuelan oil wealth and the distraction to US interests caused by the 9/11 attacks left Hugo Chavez free to introduce a revolution in his country.
The Venezuelan president was a polarising figure – someone who could bait George W Bush on TV while championing the poor and presiding over a unique social experiment in the country he led.
George Galloway, who knew Hugo Chavez well and spent two weeks working on his campaign in Venezuela last year, says the leader stood for the kind of things Labour used to stand for.
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is facing his “most difficult hours” since his cancer operation in December as the country’s top officials gather for emergency talks. Matt Frei has the latest.
In this report from March 2006, Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman looks at the growing tensions between Venezuela, led by the populist Hugo Chavez, and the US.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is “fighting for his life”, the country’s vice-president said on Friday, despite having returned to the capital, Caracas, two weeks ago.
As crowds fill Venezuela despite no presidential inauguration, Washington Correspondent Matt Frei speaks to people in Caracas about their ailing leader.
Chavez won’t be coming back home to attend his own inauguration on Thursday. The star guest is absent at his own party and the government has delayed his swearing-in.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez will miss Thursday’s scheduled swearing-in ceremony for his fourth term due to health problems, the country’s government announces.
With concern growing over the health of Venezuela’s president, does his cult of ‘Chavista’ personality mean the country is doomed to political instability if he dies?
Britain’s biggest bank is at the centre of a HMRC investigation after allegations that criminals opened offshore accounts for money laundering purposes in the bank’s Jersey operation.
While the world’s media focuses on the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the United States, parts of Cuba and much of Haiti have been devastated by the storm.
With reports of torture, disappearances and political violence, Belarus is Europe’s “last dictatorship”. But the UK still supports it with trade and arms exports, and now plans military cooperation.