Hugo Chavez

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.

Rather like my experience in one of Venezuela’s jails, it has often been hard with Hugo Chavez to tell how much was comedy, how much deadly serious, Foreign Affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman reflects on the president’s legacy.

As crowds fill Venezuela despite no presidential inauguration, Washington Correspondent Matt Frei speaks to people in Caracas about their ailing leader.

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.

The opposition in Veneuzela wants the government to disclose the true state of Hugo Chavez’s health. Due to be sworn in as president in a week, he’s not been seen in public for a month.

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?

Jubilant supporters of Venzuela’s Hugo Chavez take to the streets as the country’s socialist leader wins his fourth term as president.

Hugo Chavez leaves his hospital bed in Cuba to jet back to Venezuela in time for his country’s indepence celebrations. But doubts about the left-wing firebrand’s long-term health still linger.