Hugo Chávez dies after losing fight with cancer
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 @ 9:46 AM
VENEZUELAN president Hugo Chávez has died after an 18-month battle with cancer, reports his second-in-command Nicolás Maduro. Famously told to 'shut up' by the King of Spain five years ago, the 58-year-old, who had returned to Venezuela from Cuba on February 18 but never been out of hospital since, passed away at 16.25hrs local time on Tuesday (21.55hrs in Spain, which is five-and-a-half hours ahead) less than three months after his fourth operation on a malignant tumour in the pelvic area.
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