The Late President Of
Venezuela, Hugo Chavez
Vice-president Nicolas
Maduro was emotional as he announced Hugo Chavez's death
Venezuela's President Hugo
Chavez has died aged 58, after 14 years in power. Mr Chavez had been seriously
ill with cancer for more than a year, undergoing several operations in Cuba, and
had not been seen in public for several months.
Foreign Minister Elias Jose
Jaua Milano declared seven days of mourning and said Mr Chavez's body would lie
in state until his funeral on Friday.
Vice-President Nicolas
Maduro would assume the presidency until an election was called within 30 days,
he added.
"It is the mandate that
Comandante President Hugo Chavez gave us," Mr Jaua told state television, adding
that Mr Maduro would also be the candidate of the governing United Socialist
Party (PSUV). It was not immediately clear when the election would take
place.
Mr Chavez's illness
prevented him from taking the oath of office after he was re-elected for a third
term in October and the President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello,
had been expected by some to take over as interim president in the event of his
death. However, he was not among the political and military leaders who flanked
the vice-president when he announced Mr Chavez's death
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