Chavez is indeed a hero in Cuba, especially to its longtime leader. Over the last seven years, he has become Castro’s key economic benefactor and political partner. That relationship has stirred ...

Chavez leaves a complicated economic situation ... was even greater — especially with friendly countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia and a score of Caribbean nations ...

Hugo Chavez's cancer battle leaves big questions for Cubans who depend on their Venezuelan ally.

Speculation and messages of support surged in Venezuela Wednesday, a day after President Hugo Chavez announced he would travel to Cuba for surgery. Doctors there will remove a lesion in the coming ...

Last week, Chávez asked his National Assembly for permission to return to Cuba, where he spent most of June, for chemotherapy treatment. It was there that his illness was first diagnosed and he ...

(AP) CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attended a Mass with family Thursday after returning from his latest round of radiation therapy treatment in Cuba. Chavez sat between his ...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he's flying to Cuba to begin radiation therapy Sunday, one month after undergoing surgery that removed a cancerous tumor. That will put ...

President Hugo Chavez's fight against cancer has taken another surprising turn, with Venezuela's leftist leader announcing plans to fly back to Cuba today to begin chemotherapy. Chavez has kept a ...

SANTIAGO, Chile Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defeated a respiratory infection and has begun additional medical treatment in Cuba after struggling with complications following cancer ...

(CBS/AP) Speaking for the first time in nearly three weeks on state-run VTV Thursday night, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said doctors in Cuba performed emergency surgery to remove a cancerous ...

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