{"id":32510,"date":"2013-03-06T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32510"},"modified":"2013-03-06T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:32:17","slug":"hugo-chavez-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/hugo-chavez-dies","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Chavez Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/hugo-chavez-dies-32510.html\/chavez\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32512\" title=\"chavez\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/chavez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/chavez.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/chavez-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>After two years of battling cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday at 4.25 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-president Nicolas Maduro made the announcement on public television shortly after, speaking from the Military Hospital in Caracas, where Chavez was being treated following his return from Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Military and police have been sent out into the streets to maintain the peace but for the moment things were calm.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of Chavez\u2019s death came on the heels of an earlier communiqu\u00e9 by communication and information minister Ernesto Villegas, saying that his condition had deteriorated, with a worsening respiratory function.<\/p>\n<p>Villegas said that, in the two weeks since Chavez returned to Venezuela following surgery in Havana on December 11, his respiratory functions worsened as a consequence of a new and severe infection.<\/p>\n<p>The president was also undergoing aggressive chemotherapy, among other related cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Caribbean News Now contributor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of battling cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday at 4.25 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[363,1301],"class_list":["post-32510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-death","tag-hugo-chavez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}