Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski celebrates after winning the primary elections in Caracas on Feb. 12, 2012. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
CARACAS — The Venezuelan government says it has uncovered information about a plot to assassinate opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waves a national flag from a balcony of the presidential palace in Caracas on March 17, 2012. Chavez has returned to Venezuela after spending three weeks in Cuba where he underwent cancer surgery. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
President Hugo Chavez landed back in Venezuela late Friday night before today entertaining "el pueblo"—the people—in his inimitable style, singing, cracking jokes and confirming to the nation that he is firmly in the game for October's presidential election.
Hugo Chávez meets Juan Manuel Santos in Havana on March 7, 2012. (Marcelo Garcia/Prensa Miraflores/Courtesy)
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is to return to Caracas next week after cancer surgery, according to his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos who visited the socialist leader in Cuba yesterday.
A boy takes pictures of a poster with the image of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez before Mass at a square in Caracas on March 2. Chavez said he was recovering from surgery in Cuba but will need further radiation treatment. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
In a TV appearance on Sunday morning, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said that the lesion recently removed by doctors in Cuba was cancerous and that further radiotherapy will be necessary.
"I continue recovering, thanks to Venezuela's support, the Cuban people, the doctors here in Cuba, to the love from the people that fills me," Chavez told Venezuelan state TV.
CARACAS — After leaving Caracas in an open-top motorcade and proclaiming that he recently dreamed Jesus had told him it wasn’t yet time to die, President Hugo Chavez’s no-doubt jubilant return from cancer treatment in Cuba is being eagerly awaited in Venezuela.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared defiantly that he 'will live', in an address just ahead of the leader's scheduled visit to Cuba for medical care.
CARACAS — Less than a week after winning Venezuela’s opposition primary, Capriles Radonski suffered criticism of his Jewish roots, an allegation of homosexuality and was called a “low-life pig” by the man he will fight in October’s election, President Hugo Chavez.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski celebrates after winning the primary elections in Caracas on Feb. 12, 2012. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
As the smear campaign began against Henrique Capriles Radonski, the winner of Sunday's primary vote and therefore the man to take on President Hugo Chavez in October's election, government officials are beginning to question the election's legitimacy.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski celebrates after winning the primary elections in Caracas on Feb. 12, 2012. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
Just two days after Henrique Capriles Radonski won Venezuela's first ever opposition primary with 64% of the vote, the country's pro-government forces have begun attacking his Jewish roots, his sexuality and the legitimacy of Sunday's election.
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