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In plazas across Venezuela today, Hugo Chavez's followers made it clear they want a continuation of the late president's policies.

President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.

Venezuelan prosecutors say a newspaper columnist who was also an opposition political activist has been shot to death.

Champion Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero is found dead in a police cell after being arrested for killing his wife.

Undefeated boxer Edwin Valero arrested in Venezuela after his wife's body found in a hotel room.

Officials were waiting today for test results to find out why 21 polo horses from a Venezuelan team fell fatally ill before a match at a Florida tournament in what one veterinarian said was the result of some kind of poison.