Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., left, hugs Francis Martinez, widow of Eusebio Penalver who was held as a prisoner for 28 years in Cuba and died...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez chats with representatives of Chinese company China-Haier at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, May 14,...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivers a speech next to the Chinese ambassador to Venezuela, Zhau Rongxian, during a ceremony with a...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivers a speech during a ceremony with a representative of Haier, China's top home appliance manufacturer, at the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivers a speech during a ceremony with a representative of Haier, China's top home appliance manufacturer, at the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez chats with representatives of Chinese company China-Haier at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, May 14,...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez helps move an electrical appliance with a representative of Chinese company China-Haier at the Miraflores...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez helps move a washing machine with a representative of Chinese company China-Haier at the Miraflores presidential...
Girl runs pasr a grafitti depicting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on a wall along one of Caracas' main streets, on May 9. 2010. AFP PHOTO/Migiel...
Venezuelan Wildemar Liendo makes a grafitti depicting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on a wall along one of Caracas' main streets, on May 9. 2010....
Venezuelan Wildemar Liendo makes a grafitti depicting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on a wall along one of Caracas' main streets, on May 9. 2010....
Venezuelan Wildemar Liendo makes a grafitti depicting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on a wall along one of Caracas' main streets, on May 9. 2010....
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gestures while delivering a speech during the signing of agreements with oil companies, in the state-owned PDVSA...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez greets oil businessmen before the signing of agreements with oil companies --Spain's Repsol and US' Chevron-- at the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks with India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora, before the signing of agreements with oil...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (delivers a speech next to the president of state-owned PDVSA Rafael Ramirez, during the signing of agreements with...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez listens to the president of state-owned PDVSA Rafael Ramirez, during the signing of agreements with oil companies...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez looks at a mobile phone during a ceremony to sign agreements with oil companies --Spain's Repsol and US' Chevron--...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gestures while delivering a speech during a ceremony to sign agreements with oil companies in the state-owned PDVSA...
Mikhail Kalashnikov, developer of the popular Russian AK-47 assault rifle, holds an AK-103 while he poses for a picture after a press conference in...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez inspects Kalashnikov assault rifles at Izhmash plant -- the home of the legendary rifle, 26 July 2006 in Izhevsk,...
Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner smiles while Presidents Evo Morales from Bolivia and Hugo Chavez from Venezuela joke, during Ecuador's...
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and his Argentinian counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner listen their national anthems at Miraflores...
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and his Argentinian counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner adjust their clothes at Miraflores presidential...
Venezuelan mother holds a poster with the photograph of her daughter hugging Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a demonstration pro a new...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks with Spain's King Juan Carlos on his arrival at the Marivent palace in Palma de Mallorca on July 25, 2008....
Worker passes in front of posters of Cuban legendary leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the entrance of a market in Havana...
General Hector Bencomo curator of Venezuela's national hero Simon Bolivar's archive and researcher Rosalgen Vargas look at some historic files in...
Researcher holds a folder with Liberator Simon Bolivar's speech in Angostura, in Caracas on April 23, 2010. The archives of Liberator Simon Bolivar,...
Researcher opens a book with part of the archives of Liberator Simon Bolivar showing his signature, in Caracas on April 23, 2010. The archives of...
General Hector Bencomo, curator of the archive of Venezuela's national heroe Simon Bolivar, in Caracas on April 23, 2010. The archives of Liberator...
Consumer buy "arepas" at a Socialist Arepera restaurant in Caracas on April 30, 2010. The "Socialist Areperas" are one of the new state retail system...
Cook prepares "arepas" at a Socialist Arepera restaurant in Caracas on April 30, 2010. The "Socialist Areperas" are one of the new state retail...
Consumer buy "arepas" at a Socialist Arepera restaurant in Caracas on April 30, 2010. The "Socialist Areperas" are one of the new state retail system...
An employee prepares "arepas" at a Socialist Arepera restaurant in Caracas on April 30, 2010. The "Socialist Areperas" are one of the new state...
Consumer buy "arepas" at a Socialist Arepera restaurant in Caracas on April 30, 2010. The "Socialist Areperas" are one of the new state retail system...
Activists protest against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in front of the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago on September 4, 2009. Protests against...
Activists stand a demonstration against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's education law in Caracas September 5, 2009. Supporters and detractors of...
Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez demonstrate in Caracas on September 4, 2009 while protests against Chavez and his government are...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Dominican Republic's Leonel Fernandez talk as Venezuela's Petrol an Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez and his...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Dominican counterpart Leonel Fernandez talk while walking prior to a meeting in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010....
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sakes hands with Dominican Economy Minister Vicente bengoa, as his Dominican counterpart Leonel Fernandez looks on,...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived in the Dominican Republic to sign the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived in the Dominican Republic to sign the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived in the Dominican Republic to sign the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived in the Dominican Republic to sign the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Dominican counterpart Leonel Fernandez talk during a meeting in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Dominican counterpart Leonel Fernandez during a meeting in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived in the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Dominican counterpart Leonel Fernandez talk in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived in the Dominican...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Dominican counterpart Leonel Fernandez sign documents in Santo Domingo, May 5, 2010. Chavez arrived in the...
Dominican President Leonel Fernandez and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez receive military honors upon Chavez arrival at the presidencial...
Dominican President Leonel Fernandez and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez wave during a visit at the presidencial palace in Santo Domingo,...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses crowds in Sweida, 100 kms south of Damascus, on Septamber 4, 2009. Chavez visited Sweida, homeland of many...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez raises his fist as he addresses crowds in Sweida, 100 kms south of Damascus, on Septamber 4, 2009. Chavez visited...
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi welcomes his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a special African Union summit in Tripoli on August 31 on the eve...
Argentine former President Nestor Kirchner shares a laugh with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez before being elected as UNASUR's General Secretary...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro attend a session of the Union of South American Nations presidential summit...
Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia, Sebastian Piñera of Chile, Jose Mujica of Uruguay and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and Foreign Ministers Carolyn...
Presidents Fernando Lugo of Paraguay and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, UNASUR general secretary Nestor Kirchner, Presidents Rafael Correa of...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro attend the opening session of the Union of South American Nations...