Editing Hugo Chávez (section)

==Death==
{{Main|Death of Hugo Chávez}}
[[File:Homenaje_póstumo_en_honor_a_Hugo_Chávez.jpg|alt=Homenaje póstumo en honor a Hugo Chávez|thumb|The public paying their respects at Chavez's funeral 8 March 2013]]
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| quote = Venezuela's hybrid regime, after Chávez's death, became more selectively accommodating on the inside and more explicitly repressive on the outside. This allowed the regime to survive, but not to thrive. Regime survival was purchased at the cost of policy immobilism. And policy immobilism has left Venezuela with the deepest economic crisis in Venezuela's history.
| source = —Corales and Penfold, ''Dragon in the Tropics: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Corrales |first1=Javier |last2=Penfold| first2=Michael| title=Dragon in the Tropics: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez |date=2 April 2015 |publisher=[[Brookings Institution Press]] |isbn=978-0815725930 |page=14}}</ref>
}}On 5 March 2013, Vice President Nicolás Maduro announced on state television that Chávez had died in a military hospital in Caracas at 16:25 [[Time in Venezuela|VET]] (20:55 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]).<ref name=hero>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2013-mar-05-la-me-hugo-chavez-20130306-story.html | title=President Hugo Chavez dies at 58; hero to Venezuela's poor | first1=Chris | last1=Kraul | first2=Mery | last2=Mogollon | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=5 March 2013 | url-access=limited}}</ref> Maduro said Chávez died "after battling a tough illness for nearly two years".<ref name=hero/> According to the head of Venezuela's presidential guard, Chávez died from a massive heart attack, and his cancer of the pelvic region was very advanced when he died.<ref name=suffering>{{Cite news | url=https://apnews.com/general-news-b97aa654e66e42e9b73e8c9d7ca54218 | title=General: Heart attack killed a suffering Chavez | work=[[Associated Press]] | date=7 March 2013}}</ref> José Ornella said that near the end of his life Chávez "couldn't speak but he said it with his lips ... '''No quiero morir, por favor no me dejen morir''{{'}} ('I don't want to die. Please don't let me die'), because he loved his country, he sacrificed himself for his country".<ref name=suffering/> Chávez is survived by four children and four grandchildren.<ref name=hero/>

Chávez was entombed in a marble sarcophagus at the Mountain Barracks in Caracas.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/thousands-make-pilgrimage-to-chavezs-tomb-zbctg5tzl20 | title=Thousands make pilgrimage to Chávez's tomb | work=[[The Times]] | date=17 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/world/chavez-shrine-draws-crowds-of-pilgrims-a-month-after-his-death-idUSBRE9340C0/ | title=Chavez shrine draws crowds of pilgrims a month after his death | first=Andrew | last=Cawthorne | work=[[Reuters]] | date=5 April 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Tumba Hugo Chávez Cuartel de la Montaña Caracas Venezuela.JPG|thumb|Mausoleum of Hugo Chávez in Caracas]]

After defecting from Venezuela, former bodyguard for Chávez, [[Leamsy Salazar]], stated that he died in December 2012, months before his death was officially announced.<ref name="INFOBAEjan2015">{{cite news|url=http://www.infobae.com/2015/01/29/1623711-el-jefe-seguridad-chavez-declaro-que-el-caudillo-murio-dos-meses-antes-la-fecha-oficial|title=El jefe de Seguridad de Chávez declaró que el caudillo murió dos meses antes de la fecha oficial|date=29 January 2015|access-date=30 January 2015|agency=[[Infobae]]}}</ref> In July 2018, former Attorney General [[Luisa Ortega Díaz]] also said that Chávez had actually died in December 2012 and the announcement of his death was delayed for political reasons. In an interview cited by Venezuelan daily [[El Nacional (Caracas)|''El Nacional'']], the former Chávez supporter said that the Venezuelan president died on 28 December, but his closest allies decided to delay the announcement and never submitted the death certificate to the Office of the Attorney General.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/politica/luisa-ortega-diaz-revelo-que-diosdado-cabello-llamo-morir-chavez_243720|title=Diosdado Cabello a Luisa Ortega Díaz: "vente que Chávez se murió"|last=Web|first=El Nacional|date=12 July 2018|work=El Nacional|access-date=12 July 2018|language=es}}</ref> The supposed delay in announcing Chávez's death raised concerns that laws signed in his name during that period were forged for political purposes.<ref name="INFOBAEjan2015" />

His death triggered a constitutional requirement that a [[2013 Venezuelan presidential election|presidential election]] be called within 30 days. Maduro, Chavez's vice president, was elected president on 14 April 2013.