Comandante Hugo Chavez dies: controversial Venezuelan president remembered
Posted: March 10, 2013
Comandante Hugo Chavez dies: controversial Venezuelan president remembered Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: bitly.com Hugo Chavez had died aged 58 after a long battle against cancer. Rory Carroll, author of a new biography of Hugo Chavez looks back at the life of the 'Commandante' who died in Caracas aged 58. He argues that that Chavez, did much to alleviate poverty during 14 years in office, he left behind deep social and economic problems. Hugo Chavez was a master of communication via television and rode the wave of anti-Bush and anti-American sentiment after the invasion of Iraq. But his oil-rich country continued to trade with the United States throughout.