{"id":6728,"date":"2013-03-05T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/wordpress\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:48:00","slug":"blog-post_6-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/?p=6728","title":{"rendered":"\u03a0\u03ad\u03b8\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5 \u03bf \u03a4\u03c3\u03b1\u03b2\u03b5\u03c2…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHugo Ch\u00e1vez, president of Venezuela, dies in Caracas<\/h1>\n

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\n\"Hugo-Chavez\"
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\nHugo Ch\u00e1vez at the
\nclosing rally of his 2012 election campaign. Despite fears for his
\nhealth, he won more votes than in any other election. Photograph:
\nOrinoquiaphoto\/LatinContent\/Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nHugo Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>, the president of Venezuela<\/a>,
\n has died in a military hospital after a long battle against cancer, the
\n vice-president has announced, prompting a wave of mourning in the
\ncountry he ruled since 1999 with a
\n<\/a>globally distinctive and influential
\nstyle of leadership.
\nThe symbol of Latin American socialism
\nsuccumbed to a respiratory infection on Tuesday evening, 21 months after
\n he first revealed he had a tumour. He had not been seen in public for
\nthree months since undergoing emergency surgery in Cuba on 11 December.
\nHe
\n will be given a state funeral in Caracas, likely to be attended by
\nmillions of supporters and leftwing leaders from across the globe who
\nhave been inspired by Ch\u00e1vez’s doctrine of “Bolivarian 21st-century
\nsocialism”, grateful for the subsidised energy he provided or simply
\nimpressed by his charisma.
\nHis death will also trigger a
\npresidential election, which must be held within 30 days, to decide who
\ncontrols the world’s greatest untapped reserves of oil. Ch\u00e1vez’s
\ndesignated successor is the vice-president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who is
\nlikely to face Henrique Capriles, the losing opposition candidate in the most recent presidential election<\/a>.
\n Until then, according to the constitution, the interim president should
\n be the head of the national assembly, Diosdado Cabello.
\nReplacing
\n one of most colourful figures on the global political landscape will be
\n an immense challenge. Born to a poor family on the plains, Ch\u00e1vez
\nbecame a tank commander and a devotee of South America’s liberator,
\nSim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar. A failed coup in 1992 propelled him into the limelight
\nbut it was his ballot box triumphs that made him a inspiration for the
\nresurgent Latin American left and the most outspoken \u2013 and often
\nhumorous \u2013 critic of the US, the war in Iraq and former president George
\n W Bush, whom he described as a “donkey” and a “devil”.
\nFormerly
\none of the most dynamic political leaders in the world with a
\nglobe-trotting schedule and a weekly, unscripted TV broadcast that
\nusually went on for hours, Ch\u00e1vez shocked his countrymen in June 2011
\nwhen he revealed that Cuban surgeons had removed a baseball-sized tumour
\n from his pelvic region.
\nAfter that, he underwent several rounds
\nof chemotherapy and two more operations in what he described as a
\n“battle for health and for life”. His medical records were never made
\npublic, prompting widespread speculation about his imminent demise, but
\nhe and his supporters insisted he was recovering. Before the
\npresidential election in October 2012, aides claimed he was well enough
\nto complete a full term of office.
\nDuring that campaign, Ch\u00e1vez
\nwas clearly affected by his illness. But although he made fewer and
\nshorter appearances, he won more votes than in any of his earlier
\nelection battles, prompting him to proclaim victory in a “perfect
\nbattle”.
\nFears about his health escalated after he rushed to Cuba
\nfor hyperbaric oxygen treatment on 27 November. Less than a fortnight
\nlater, he made a televised address in which he said that doctors had
\ndiscovered malignant cells that required surgery and urged Venezuelans
\nto vote for Maduro if he was incapacitated.
\nSince his
\noperation in December, Ch\u00e1vez has been visited by family members and
\nseveral of his closest political allies, including Fidel and Raul Castro
\n of Cuba, Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa and Bolivian president Evo
\nMorales.
\nBeyond a set of four photographs released last
\nmonth that showed a remarkably hearty looking Ch\u00e1vez smiling in a
\nhospital bed and flanked by his daughters, the president has not been
\nseen or heard for three months. This prompted frequent rumours that the
\npresident was dead or on life support. The government denied this and
\nsaid he continued to run the country by writing down his orders.
\nBut
\n officials acknowledged that Ch\u00e1vez suffered multiple complications
\nafter his surgery including respiratory infections and bleeding. He had
\nto undergo more chemotherapy and drug treatments and could only breathe
\nthrough a tracheal tube.
\nHe returned from Cuba on 18
\nFebruary at his own request, said officials. Since then he has been
\ntreated at Carlos Arvelo military hospital in Caracas.
\nHopes
\n for a recovery dimmed on Monday, when minister of communications,
\nErnesto Villegas, said the president’s condition had declined due to a
\n“new and serious respiratory infection.”
\nConstitutional
\nquestions have been raised by his long hospitalisation and absence from
\npublic life, which he formerly dominated with dynamic and provocative
\nappearances on his weekly television address, “Hello Mr President.” When
\n he failed to attend his scheduled inauguration on 10 January, the
\nopposition asked who is running the country. The ruling party responded
\nwith a rally of more than 100,000 supporters, many carrying banners
\ndeclaring “We are Ch\u00e1vez.”
\n http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/mar\/05\/hugo-chavez-dies-cuba<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, president of Venezuela, dies in Caracas Hugo Ch\u00e1vez at the closing rally of his 2012 election campaign. Despite fears for his health, he won more votes than in any other election. Photograph: Orinoquiaphoto\/LatinContent\/Getty Images Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, the president of Venezuela, has died in a military hospital after a long battle against cancer, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[228],"class_list":{"0":"post-6728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1","7":"tag-228"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thessalika-nea.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}