Vice-President Nicolas Maduro’s voice broke and tears ran down his face as he appeared on national television to announce that Hugo Chávez died at 4.25 p.m. local time (11.25 p.m. IST) “after battling hard against an illness over nearly two years.”
Hugo Chavez was first diagnosed with cancer in June 2011
Venezuelans raced for home and stocked up on food and water Tuesday after the government announced the death of President Hugo Chávez, the larger-than-life firebrand socialist who led the nation for 14 years.
Venezuela's government has declared seven days of national mourning.Ecuador and Cuba both announced three days of national mourning to honor Hugo Chavez
About Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chávez was a career military officer, and after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system, he founded the secretive 'Revolutionary Bilivarian Movement -200(MBR-200) in the early 1980s
July 5, 1975 Hugo Chavez, center, poses with his mother Elena Frias and father Hugo de los Reyes Chavez at his graduation from the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela
Hugo Chávez led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful coup d'etat against the Democratic Action Govt. of President Carlos Andres Perez in 1992, for which he was imprisoned. February 1992: Journalists and soldiers loyal to President Carlos Andres Perez lie on the floor in one of the entrance rooms of the Presidential Palace in Caracas after rebel paratroopers, led by lieutenant colonel Hugo Chavez, attacked the palace in a bid to oust Perez. When the attempt failed, Chavez announced his defeat in a TV appearance [inset] that made him a hero overnight. He said that he had only failed "for now".
February 5, 1992 file photo, paratroop commander Hugo Chavez, center, is escorted by military intelligence officers after being arrested for trying to overthrow Venezuela's government in a coup.
Hugo Chavez, top left, poses with fellow members of the failed coup as they serve time in Yare II jail near Caracas, Venezuela
Hugo Chávez was released from prison after two years and he founded a Social Democratic Political party, the Fifth Republic Movement(MVR) of which he was the leader from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist party of Venezuela(PSUV)
Hugo Chavez was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela with the largest % of the popular vote (56.2%)defeating Henrique Salas Römer of Project Venezuela Party who got only 40% votes in the 1998 Venezuelan Presidential Election
October 28, 2000 file photo, Cuba's President Fidel Castro, left, talks with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Barinas, Venezuela, near Chavez's hometown of Sabaneta
14 April 2002: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds the constitution during his speech to the nation upon his return to the presidential palace in Caracas. A teary-eyed Hugo Chavez returned after being ousted two days previously in a coup
March 4, 2005 file photo, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, center, talks to India's President, APJ Abdul Kalam, right, and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a ceremonial reception in New Delhi, India.
July 22, 2006 photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez , right, speak with Cuba's Fidel Castro during their visit to the home of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Cordoba, Argentina
4 July 2011: Hugo Chavez embraces his daughters Maria and Rosa at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, after spending three weeks in Cuba, where he had a cancerous tumour removed
20 October 2011: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waves upon alighting from the plane upon landing at the airport in Tachira, Venezuela. Chavez said his cancer treatment had been successful and that he was free of the disease as he arrived home after medical tests in Cuba.
7 October 2012: President Hugo Chavez waves a Venezuelan flag while speaking to supporters after receiving news of his re-election. According to the National Electoral Council, Chavez received 54.42% of the votes, beating opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who obtained 44.97%.
31 December 2012: Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pray during a mass in Caracas. Venezuela called off public New Year's Eve festivities after the government said cancer-stricken Chavez had taken a turn for the worse
Hugo Chavez described his policies as anti-Imperialist
Hugo Chavez was a prominent adversary of the USA
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (July 28,1954 - March 5,2013)was the President of Venezuela who held office from 1999 until his death in 2013.On October 7,2012, Hugo Chávez won the presidential election for a 4th time, defeating Henrique Capriles and was elected for another six-year term
(Presidential Terms - First during Feb 1999 - Jan 2001;Second during Jan 2001- Jan 2007 and Third during Jan 2007 -Jan 2013 )
Last Picture of Hugo Chavez with his daughters released on Feb 15,2013
Hugo Chavez's coffin was paraded through the city of Caracas
Hundreds of thousands of mourners have flooded the streets of the Caracas to honour Hugo Chavez.
The Venezuelan capital was brought to a standstill as the charismatic President's coffin was paraded through the city.
Chavez's body will lie in state until Friday March 8,2013 when it will be given a state funeral
Venezuelan Defence Minister Diego Molero and other Army members carry the coffin of late Venezuelan President into the Military Academy
An aerial view of Caracas shows a sea of red as the coffin borne through throngs of supporters
Body of Hugo Chavez lies in state
Hugo Chavez's body is lying in state at the Fuerte Tiuna Military Academy in Caracas.
The coffin, covered in a Venezuelan flag, was placed in a hall dedicated to the "liberators of South America"
His family and close advisers, as well as the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay, paid their respects next to his open coffin on Wednesday March 6,2013
Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro speaks to people outside the military academy where the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is lying in state in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro, Venezuela's acting president, said Chavez's remains will be put on permanent display at the Museum of the Revolution, close to the presidential palace where Chavez ruled for 14 years. A state funeral for Chavez attended by some 33 heads of government is scheduled to begin Friday morning
World Leaders Attend Hugo Chavez Funeral
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, her Uruguayan counterpart Jose Mujica and her the Bolivian leader Evo Morales stand next to the coffin
Huge crowds flooded the center of Caracas for the funeral of Hugo
Chavez, the charismatic president of Venezuela. Among the mourners were
Sean Penn and Jesse Jackson, pictured Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (top
left), Cuba's Raul Castro (centre left) and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega
(bottom left).
People line up to view Hugo Chavez's
body as it lies in state at the Military Academy in Caracas
A woman reacts as she views the remains of President Hugo Chavez. The
former Venezuelan President was lying in state behind glass in a
half-open coffin in the Caracas military academy, with eyes closed,
wearing olive green military fatigues, a black tie and the red beret
that became a symbol of his 14-year socialist rule
After over a week of lying in state, the 58-year-old's body was
driven through the capital in a hearse for one last time.
Friends and family joined government and army officials as the coffin arrived at the former army barracks-turned-museum where he plotted his failed 1992 coup.
Official television coverage, streaming the procession throughout the day, cut the footage just as Mr Chavez's coffin, bedecked in a Venezuelan flag, was set to be interred.
The museum housing his body is open to the public and the government anticipates that the mausoleum will become a "place of pilgrimage for the world's revolutionaries".
On Friday, Venezuelan officials ruled out embalming the former leader and leaving his body on permanent public display in a similar fashion to Lenin.
Communications minister Ernesto Villegas wrote on Twitter: "We have ruled out the option of embalming the body of comandante Chavez after a Russian medical commission report."
The procedure would require the body to be sent to Russia and stay there for at least seven months.
Hugo Chavez Taken To Final Resting Place -Saturday March 16,2013
The late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has been laid to rest
at a military museum after hundreds of thousands said a final farewell
in a procession through Caracas.
Friends and family joined government and army officials as the coffin arrived at the former army barracks-turned-museum where he plotted his failed 1992 coup.
Official television coverage, streaming the procession throughout the day, cut the footage just as Mr Chavez's coffin, bedecked in a Venezuelan flag, was set to be interred.
The museum housing his body is open to the public and the government anticipates that the mausoleum will become a "place of pilgrimage for the world's revolutionaries".
On Friday, Venezuelan officials ruled out embalming the former leader and leaving his body on permanent public display in a similar fashion to Lenin.
Communications minister Ernesto Villegas wrote on Twitter: "We have ruled out the option of embalming the body of comandante Chavez after a Russian medical commission report."
The procedure would require the body to be sent to Russia and stay there for at least seven months.
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