Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez yesterday showed off his new look — a shaved head due to the chemotherapy treatment he has been undergoing for an unspecified cancer. If he goes, no one really knows what would happen.
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What happened to Hugo Chavez?
Is Hugo Chavez alive or dead? It’s impossible to say given the media-friendly Venezuela president has dropped off the radar after having surgery in Cuba earlier this month. New Matilda investigates.
Venezuela: where prison means marijuana, bikini girls and reggaton
A fascinating look into the famous San Antonio prison in Venezuela, where the prisoners can’t leave, but they can sell drugs to locals, collect guns and inmates take the authorities hostage.
Vale to a sharp-suited, bushy-sideburned political maverick
Twice president of Venezuela, the victim of political coups, misuser of millions of dollars in public funds and mortal enemy of current president Hugo Chavez, Carlos Andrés Pérez died aged 88 on Christmas Day.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: To pseudonym or not to pseudonym?
Crikey readers have their say on the Grog’s Gamut debacle.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Venezuelan election coverage shows world doesn’t give a stuff about global poor
In watching more than a decade of Venezuela reporting I have time and again marvelled at the capacity of a fixed mindset to reproduce itself endlessly.
Is Chávez plotting to control food and beer?
Outspoken Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez may be planning to wrest control of the country’s largest food supplier, publicly warning the company that he isn’t afraid of nationalisation. Critics say such plan could be disastrous.
Hugo Chavez in a rare interview with the West
Socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez sat down for a 60 minutes chat with the BBC, blaming Venezuela’s economic woes on America’s “rampant, irresponsible capitalism”.
What are 30,000 Cuban advisers doing in Venezuela?
Anyone dismissing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as just a wacky loudmouth does so at their own peril: he has imported 30,000 advisers from Cuba, $2b worth of weapons from Russia, and is doing big business with China. Is a socialist revolution brewing?
Hugo Chavez: the new leader of the Latin American left
How an alliance between Cuba and Venezuela, formed 15 years ago in protest to an American free trade agreement, has grown into a $7 billion socialist trading partnership, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at its helm.
The Amazon: one jungle, many interests
Amazonian countries are meeting today to establish a mutual negotiating position for Copenhagen. But from Columbia to Brazil to Venezuela, each country has its own interests to protect — and they aren’t always ones that put the environment first.
Chavez rules the airwaves in Venezuela
Hugo Chavez wants to shut down Globovisión, the last remaining national channel in Venezuela that’s critical of the government. At the same time, the government has built itself a huge media empire.
Hugo loves Mahmoud
Most world leaders have refused to congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his contentious victory — but not Hugo Chávez, who loudly applauded his “very big and important victory”.
What Chávez has wrought
The authoritarian socialist has brought Venezuela food shortages and massive inflation, writes Duncan Currie.
