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Left to right: Cuban President Raul Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega talk after the ALBA (Boliviarian Alternative for the Americas) summit in Caracas.
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Feb. 5, 2012
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez walks past a car after the ALBA (Boliviarian Alternative for the Americas) summit in Caracas.
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Feb. 5, 2012
Cuban President Raul Castro (in blue suit) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (in black suit) talk next to a new rustic truck made in Venezuela, after the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) summit in Caracas.
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Feb. 5, 2012
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, and Cuba's President confer at the end of a summit of the ALBA ( Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) trade block, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Feb. 5, 2012
Cuban President Raul Castro, second from left, and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, attend the plenary session of the ALBA (Boliviarian Alternative for the Americas) summit in Caracas.
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Feb. 5, 2012
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves as he attends the first session of a summit by the eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance bloc, or ALBA, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Feb. 5, 2012
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, and Bolivia's President Evo Morales attend the welcoming ceremony for the eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance bloc, or ALBA, summit at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Feb. 4, 2012
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves next to his daughter Rosa Virginia during a military parade commemorating the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that launched his political career in Caracas, Venezuela. Chavez was an army paratroop commander when he led the failed attempt to topple the government of President Carlos Andres Perez on Feb. 4, 1992. Chavez was jailed and later pardoned.
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Feb. 3, 2012
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (R) greets his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on his arrival at the Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas.
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May 1, 2011
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gestures during a May Day rally in Caracas. Chavez recently announced a plan to create more than three million jobs over the next eight years in Venezuela, where unemployment now hovers around 9%.
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Jan. 1, 2011
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, second from left, speaks with his counterparts from Peru, Alan Garcia, left, and Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, in Brasilia. Chavez's influence is waning across Latin America, as unemployment increases and the oil economy is on the brink in Venezuela.
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Aug. 6, 2010
Chavez's goals of regional unity took a blow with a political shift in neighboring Brazil, where President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who publicly embraced Chavez, is no longer in power. In the photo, Chavez speaks with Lula during the South America-Africa (ASA) Strategic Presidential Committee in Caracas.
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Jan. 1, 2011
Only 13 percent of Brazlians have confidence in Hugo Chavez, according to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center. Brazil's new president, Dilma Rouseff, has rarely appeared with Chavez since taking office and has focused more ambitious domestic agenda. In the photo, Rousseff is embraced by Chavez during her inauguration at Planalto Palace in Brasilia.
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April 9, 2011
In 2010, Chavez said that his government had broken off diplomatic relations with Colombia after it charged that Colombian guerrilla leaders were in Venezuela. A month later, leaders of two nations said they were putting their differences aside in the interest of both nations. In the photo, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, right, and Chavez deliver a joint press conference after a meeting in Cartagena, Colombia.
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July 6, 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez talks with his Ecuadorean counterpart Rafael Correa, during the commemoration of the 199th anniversary of Venezuela's independence, at the national Pantheon, where the remains of XIX century hero Simon Bolivar are kept, in Caracas.
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May 1, 2011
A man holds a dummy, with a picture of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, left, and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, as he demonstrates against a referendum launched by Correa, during a march for May Day celebrations in Quito, Ecuador.
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March 31, 2011
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, right, speaks with his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales during the March closing ceremony of the Bolivia-Venezuela Integration Committee in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In April, Venezuela entered into new pacts with Bolivia and Ecuador after exiting from the trade group of the Andean Community of Nations following decisions by Colombia and Peru to sign free trade agreements with the U.S.
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March 30, 2011
Chavez stares at Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, center, during a ceremony at the governement house in Buenos Aires, where Chavez was signing new trade agreements with Argentina. According to a report by Chilean policy analysis group Latinobarometro, less than 35 percent of people in places like Argentina and Bolivia had a favorable opinions of the Venezuelan leader.
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Nov. 8, 2010
Cuban President Raul Castro, right, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speak during a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), at the Conventions Palace in Havana. Venezuela is a leading political ally and one of Cuba's biggest trade partners.
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July 16, 2009
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo listens to Chavez during celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of Bolivia's first declaration of independence in La Paz. Many say Lugo is Chavez's new radical leftist ally, an allegation that the Paraguayan president has dismissed since he came to power in 2008.
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March 16, 2011
A Falla, a gigantic sculpted structure made of cardboard and wood that humorously portrays, left to right, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, U.S. President Obama, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Cuba President Fidel Castro and Bolivian President Evo Morales, and left to right, top, Brazilian President Dilma Rousell, Argentinan President Cristina Fernnadez and Mexican President Felipe Clderon are seen during the Fallas Festival in Valencia. The Fallas will were burned in the streets of Valencia in March as a tribute to St. Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters' guild.
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Oct. 22, 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, right, salutes Libyan soldiers upon his arrival in Tripoli, Libya. Chavez arrived in Libya for talks with the country's leader Moammar Gaddafi, with whom he has maintained close ties for several years.
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Oct. 19, 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, greets his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a welcoming ceremony in Tehran.
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Oct. 16, 2010
Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko welcomes Chavez in Minsk. Chavez's popularity has been further tarnished as he has forged closer ties with regimes like Iran, Libya and Belarus.
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Sept. 24, 2008
A supporter of Honduran President Roberto Micheletti demonstrates with a sign against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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Feb. 11, 2010
A protester carries a sign with a crossed-out picture of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reading "Chavez, here in Ecuador, you're also out!" during a march protesting against the government of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa in downtown Guayaquil.
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