Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Manduro says President Hugo Chavez has died, Reuters reports. The 58-year-old Venezuelan President has been fighting an undisclosed type of pelvic cancer since at least June 30, 2011, and had come back from the illness to win re-election last year. The news came just hours after a press conference by VP Manduro that gave the impression that Hugo Chavez was on the brink of death. In a new statement, Manduro says Chavez died at 4:25 pm. Bloomberg reports that V...
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Manduro says President Hugo Chavez has died, Reuters reports. The 58-year-old Venezuelan President has been fighting an undisclosed type of pelvic cancer since at least June 30, 2011, and had come back from the illness to win re-election last year. The news came just hours after a press conference by VP Manduro that gave the impression that Hugo Chavez was on the brink of death. In a new statement, Manduro says Chavez died at 4:25 pm. Bloomberg reports that V...
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