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Pope Francis meets Venezuelan President Maduro

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday for the first time since Maduro won a narrow and disputed election victory to succeed late Socialist leader Hugo Chavez.Full story

Venezuela considers taking bottles from babies' mouths

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Congress will discuss legislation next week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants to try to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula, said a lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party. Full story

Venezuela proposes ending detention of judge who says she was raped

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's attorney general proposed on Friday to end the house arrest of a female judge who was detained on corruption charges in 2009 and alleged that she was raped in prison. Full story

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  Venezuela votes for new president

After passionate campaigning, Venezuelans went to the polls to choose who will replace the late Hugo Chavez. NBC’s Mark Potter reports.

  Peace yet eludes Chavez in repose

Chris Hayes updates the story of plans to preserve the dead body of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez with the news that the body may be too far-gone to display.

  The Chavez Conspiracy?

The Venezuelan government has announced it will conduct a formal inquiry into whether deceased president Hugo Chavez was "inoculated" with cancer. Risa Grais-Targow, Eurasia Group Latin America Analyst, provides perspective on how this might impact oil

  What can we learn from Latin America’s shift to the left?

After the Venezuelan leader’s countless controversial statements, Chris Hayes and his panel focus on how Hugo Chavez’s role as an outsider on the world stage shaped his country’s diplomatic relations.

  What we can learn about how Chavez came to power

Chris Hayes and his panel look at the history behind how Hugo Chavez came to power and why he was known as a political outsider.

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