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The U.S. citizen detained by Venezuela on accusations of spying is a documentary filmmaker who had accreditation from the South American country’s electoral council to observe elections this month, his lawyer said today.
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Chilean authorities exhumed the body of Pablo Neruda as part of a probe into whether the Nobel Prize- winning poet was murdered in the bloody aftermath of the country’s 1973 military coup.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that he’s still convinced South American liberator Simon Bolivar was murdered in 1830 even though an investigation he commissioned has come up with no evidence of foul play.
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Hugo Chavez, the self-declared socialist who transformed Venezuelan politics by channeling record oil revenue to the poor, nationalizing corporations and vilifying foes as U.S. imperialist puppets, has died. He was 58.
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Allies of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez paid their final respects to the firebrand socialist leader at a state funeral that marked the emotional high point of a week of tributes preceding a snap election to choose his successor.
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Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as Venezuela’s acting president hours after eulogizing his mentor Hugo Chavez in a fiery and tearful state funeral that drew leaders and celebrity activists from around the world.
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The following is a timeline of milestones in the life of Hugo Chavez, who ruled Venezuela from 1999 to 2013. Chavez died at 3:55 p.m. New York time yesterday at a Caracas military hospital. He was 58.
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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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Venezuelans are paying their respects to former President Hugo Chavez today, filing past an open casket in a military academy after his body was carried through the streets of Caracas yesterday.
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In the nature and the suffering of what may be his impending death, Hugo Chavez will probably achieve the immortality in human memory that he has always sought, the certainty of a veneration reserved for saints, martyrs and redeemers.
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