Hugo Chavez, fiery Venezuelan leader, dies at 58

[Blac kid]

Rest in peace Hugo!

 

[Mourinho]

R.I.P Jembe

 

[BelindaJacob]

Descansa en paz...!!

 

[Chilisosi]

R.I.P
Very sad news

 

[BelindaJacob]

BBC hawajacomfirm. Wanasema he is in most difficult hours

They just did...CNN as well nawatch hapa!!

 

[LOTIMA]

R.I.P Kamanda

 

[Mzito Kabwela]

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is
undergoing his "most difficult hours", his
deputy has said.
Nicolas Maduro spoke at length in a speech
apparently designed to reassure citizens
despite the failing health of Venezuela's leader.
He accused the US of plotting against the
Venezuelan government: Two US military
attaches have been expelled.
On Monday, officials said the 58-year-old
Venezuelan leader had a new, severe
respiratory infection.
Dozens of people gathered to pray for his
health at the hospital where Mr Chavez is being
treated.
He has not appeared in public since he
returned to Venezuela last month after being
treated for cancer in Cuba.
'Attack' on president
The address, broadcast live on TV from the
presidential Miraflores Palace, showed Mr
Maduro surrounded by political and military
leaders in a display of solidarity.
He accused "enemies of the fatherland" in
Venezuela and abroad, particularly the United
States, of seeking to undermine democracy in
Venezuela.
Speaking in a room full of dignitaries including
the defence minister and the president's
brother, Adan Chavez, Mr Maduro said Mr
Chavez's illness was an "attack" by his enemies
and called for this to be investigated.
He said one US Air Force attache, David
Delmonico, had been spying on Venezuela's
military and had 24 hours to leave the country.
Venezuela's foreign minister, Elias Jaua, later
announced the expulsion of a second US Air
Force attache, Devlin Kosta.
US Department of Defense spokesman Lt Col
Todd Breasseale later confirmed Col
Delmonico was "en route back to the United
States".
"We completely reject the Venezuelan
government's claim that the United States is
involved in any type of conspiracy to destabilize
Venezuela government.," said Lt Col
Breasseale.
"Further, we absolutely reject the specific
allegations leveled by the Venezuelan
government against Air Attache David
Delmonaco and Assistant Air Attache Devlin
Kostal."
Col Breasseale confirmed Assistant Air Attache
Devlin Costal, who is currently in the US, would
not return to Venezuela.
In recent days, the opposition have condemned
what they say is the lack of clarity surrounding
Mr Chavez's condition.
"The lack of precise information worries
Venezuelans and fuels rumours," said Ramon
Guillermo Aveledo of the opposition
Democratic Unity coalition.
At the weekend, hundreds of Venezuelan
students and opposition members marched in
Caracas demanding full details about Mr
Chavez's health.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas accused
Mr Chavez's opponents of showing "the same
hatred that they have shown towards Chavez all
these years.
"It annoys them that he won't give up and
neither will the people!," he wrote on his
Twitter account.
On Monday Mr Villegas announced from the
military hospital where Mr Chavez is being
treated that he had suffered "a worsening of
respiratory function" and that his condition
continued to be "very delicate".
He said Mr Chavez was undergoing "intensive
chemotherapy, as well as complementary
treatments".
"The commander-president remains clinging to
Christ and to life, conscious of the difficulties
that he is facing, and complying strictly with the
programme designed by his medical team," Mr
Villegas said.
Mr Chavez, who has been in office for 14 years,
is believed to have cancer in his pelvic area,
but his exact illness has never been disclosed.
He announced in June 2011 that he had cancer
and has undergone four operations since then,
as well as chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
The president was re-elected for another six-
year term in October 2012, but the Supreme
Court ruled that his swearing-in on 10 January
could be delayed because of his illness.
He is said to be taking decisions about the
country from the hospital bed but there have
been mixed messages from officials on his
condition.

 

[NDEO]

R.I.P comrade

 

[MD25]

Ndo stor ya wiki hii.. Jk huenda akatua Venezuela.
R.I.P

JK kwanza ataanza kwa kwenda kumzika yule deputy PM wa Uganda, then ataenda huKo Venezuela. Wapi tena kuna msiba ajiandae?

 

[mwekundu]

RIP

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[Gang Chomba]

simba hafi, bali hupumzika...

 

[Mama Mdogo]

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was the President of Venezuela, having held that position from 1999 until his death in 2013. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Following his own political ideology of Bolivarianism and "Socialism for the 21st Century", he has focused on implementing socialist reforms in the country as a part of a social project known as the Bolivarian Revolution, which has seen the implementation of a new constitution, participatory democratic councils, the nationalization of several key industries, increased government funding of health care and education, and significant reductions in poverty, according to government figures.

Born into a working-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer, and after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system, he founded the secretive Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s to work towards overthrowing it. Chávez led the MBR-200 in an unsuccessful coup d'état against the Democratic Action government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1992, for which he was imprisoned. Getting out of prison after two years, he founded a social democratic political party, the Fifth Republic Movement, and was elected president of Venezuela in 1998. He subsequently introduced a new constitution which increased rights for marginalized groups and altered the structure of Venezuelan government, and was re-elected in 2000. During his second presidential term, he introduced a system of Bolivarian Missions, Communal Councils and worker-managed cooperatives, as well as a program of land reform, whilst also nationalizing various key industries. On 7 October 2012, Chávez won his country's presidential election for a fourth time, defeating Henrique Capriles, and was elected for another six-year term.

Chávez describes his policies to be anti-imperialist, and he is a vocal critic of neoliberalism and laissez-faire capitalism. More generally, Chávez has been a prominent adversary of the United States' foreign policy. Allying himself strongly with the Communist governments of Fidel and then Raúl Castro in Cuba and the Socialist governments of Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, his presidency is seen as a part of the socialist "pink tide" sweeping Latin America. He has supported Latin American and Caribbean cooperation and was instrumental in setting up the pan-regional Union of South American Nations, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, the Bank of the South, and the regional television network TeleSur. Chávez is a highly controversial and divisive figure both at home and abroad.

On 30 June 2011, Chávez stated that he was recovering from a June 10 operation to remove an abscessed tumor with cancerous cells. He required a second operation in December 2012. Chávez was to have been sworn in on January 10, 2013, but the National Assembly of Venezuela has agreed to postpone the inauguration to allow him time to recuperate and return from a third medical treatment trip to Cuba.[7] On 1 March 2013, Venezuelan vice president Nicolas Maduro reported that Chávez was in "good spirits", although fighting for his life. On March 5, Chavez was announced dead, four days after his daughters gave the orders to take him off from life support.

 

[Ngambo Ngali]

Rest in peace, the great revolutionary

 

[Kobello]

Que En paz descanse !!!
Aluta continua!

 

[MPANDA Jr]

Ayaa! Mbona yanaondoka makamanda ya ukweli, halaf mamburura kama haya ya ccm yanaendelea kuvuta O2 tu. Ooh GOD R.I.P Kamanda Chaves

 

[Tayseer]

R.I.P ila kuondoka kwako kunashukuriwa na serekali ya udhalimu ya america

 

[Mupirocin]

Rip Mr president

 

[ELFU-ONEIR]

TAARIFA ZILIZOPATIKANAA ZINA SEMA RAIS WA VENEZUELA "HUGO CHAVEZ AMEFARIKI DUNIA BAADA YA KUPATA MATATIZO YA KUSHINDWA KUJPUMUA.

MORE TO COME : .: HUGO CHVEZ ATANJGULIA MBELE ZA HAKI

 

[a4afrika]

Heri yake, kwa maana anaendelea kuishi hata baada ya kifo chake! Yu bado mpiganaji wa moto vitani, na bahati nzuri atabaki kuwa hivyo milele kwani hana nafasi ya kubadilika tena!
"Kifo ni nafasi atoayo mtu kwa watu kuishi imani na mitazamo yake"
Mungu wetu anaita sasa!

 

[regan morgan]

R.I.P, tuko nyuma yako na ss twaja ila siku bado hazijajulikana