"Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Dead at 58 After Long Battle With Cancer" PBS Newshour 3/5/2013
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MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): The announcement of the Venezuelan leader's death came late this afternoon by the country's vice president, Nicolas Maduro.
Chavez had shown remarkable staying power, ruling the South American country for 14 years. He survived a coup that briefly deposed him, a constitution that term-limited him out of office, and won an October election after his first bout with cancer.
He and his brand of revolutionary socialism antagonized three U.S. administrations, as he cozied up to the world's most isolated regimes in Cuba, Iran, and Syria.
For more on his death and what it means for the future of Venezuela, I'm joined by Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, and Carl Meacham, head of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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