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An outspoken opposition leader known for embracing confrontation was chosen Sunday to head Venezuela's new congress when it opens in two days as a counterweight to the socialist administration.

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Venomous political attacks have become the norm in Venezuela, and now a governing party legislator has unleashed a tirade in the country's legislature using gay slurs in trying to discredit the opposition.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-16 08:00:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413218 [AuthorName] => Jorge Rueda [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2108/hygp.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 955007 [Title] => Venezuela's cardinal: Pope should urge coexistence [Summary] =>

Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government's opponents, the Catholic Church's top representative in the country said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-17 06:22:14 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1231925 [AuthorName] => Christopher Toothaker [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 931317 [Title] => Chavez's heir to take over divided Venezuela [Summary] =>

Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, has officially won Venezuela's presidential election by a stunningly narrow margin that highlights rising discontent over problems ranging from crime to power blackouts.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-16 03:03:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 930942 [Title] => Venezuelans choose between Chavez heir, new path [Summary] =>

Voters chose Sunday between the hand-picked successor who campaigned to carry on Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution and an emboldened second-time challenger who warned that the late president's regime has Venezuela on the road to ruin.

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Venezuelans will vote April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced Saturday as increasingly strident political rhetoric begins to roil this polarized country.

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Nicolas Maduro so far has led by imitation, seeking to fill the shoes of a president whose uncanny vigor, mischievous humor and political wiles sowed a revolution and transformed a nation.

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A flag-draped coffin carrying the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez floated over a sea of supporters yesterday on its way to a military academy where it will lie in state.

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Even in death, Hugo Chavez's orders are being followed. The man he anointed to succeed him, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, will continue to run Venezuela as interim president and be the governing socialists' candidate in an election to be called within 30 days.

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President Hugo Chavez's crusade to transform Venezuela into a socialist state, which has bitterly divided the nation, was put to the stiffest electoral test of his nearly 14 years in power on Sunday in a closely fought presidential election.

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