Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez died on Tuesday after suffering complications from cancer surgery, putting an end to the anti-capitalist leader’s controversial 14-year rule.
Chávez’s death, announced by Nicolás Maduro, the vice-president, came almost two years after he was diagnosed with cancer in June 2011. He then
Mr Maduro said the 58-year-old leader died at 4.25pm on Tuesday afternoon. “We must unite now more than ever,” said Mr Maduro in a breaking voice, surrounded by Chávez’s closest aides at the Caracas military hospital where he had been treated. “Let there be no violence, no hate,” added the vice-president, who called for “love, peace, unity, discipline”.
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