Question marks over health of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez
Just who is pulling the strings in South America’s largest oil producer, while Hugo Chavez recovers from surgery in Cuba?
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Just who is pulling the strings in South America’s largest oil producer, while Hugo Chavez recovers from surgery in Cuba?
The diaries were written while the iconic revolutionary was leading the campaign that brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba.
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