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He founded a political party known as, the Fifth Republic Movement, and was then elected President.
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Chavez designated vice president Nicolas Maduro as his successor if he was to not survive his fourth cancer surgery.
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Hugo Chavez died due to a long battle with cancer.
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Maduro beats his rival, Henrique Capriles in the election to be President for the rest of Chavez's term
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Maduro expells three US diplomats claiming that they were involved with a power outage that happened earlier that month.
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Student protest grab global attention when three of the protesters are killed, the protests are fueled by social and economic problems.
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Venezuela revokes press credentials for CNN journalists, Maduro announces that he would expel CNN if they didn't rectify its covers of anti-government protests calling it war propaganda.
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Maduro announces a state of economic emergency.
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Maduro declares a constitutional state of emergency which builds on the economic emergency from January.
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In 2011, Venezuela had around $30 billion now in 2017 they have roughly around $9.9 billion.
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A national poll was taken in Venezuela revealing that the citizens have lost an average of 19 pounds in body weight. Shelves are empty and people are scavenging.
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Oil is a leading export for Venezuela, they highly depend on the money that they bring in for selling it globally, but oil prices has dropped. A barrel of oil used to cost $100 now it is about $50, meaning Venezuela's income was cut in half.
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The US Treasury Department says that the National Constituent Assembly "aspires to usurp the constitutional role of the democratically elected National Assembly, rewrite the constitution, and impose an authoritarian regime on the people of Venezuela".
