Some of his opponents claimed the Venezuelan president did not look healthy, however.

He also had a fiscal fortune in his hands such as no Venezuelan president ever had.

The assassination attempt, carried out on June 24, 1960, injured but did not kill the Venezuelan president.

Perez, who survived two coup attempts in 1992, was the first Venezuelan president to be impeached.

He enjoyed popular support and actually completed the constitutional five-year term of office - the first democratically elected Venezuelan president to do so.

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, giving a speech this week.

At the very least, treat all Venezuelan Presidents equally with respect to accenting their names.

In 2006, the Venezuelan president ordered an eighth star be added to represent the province of Guayana.

Finally this spring, the Venezuelan president, a throwback in so many ways, provoked an equally retrograde reaction: a coup.

The Iranian and Venezuelan presidents also joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal.