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Posted: 5/17/2013 12:04:45 PM EST
In this May 14, 2013 photo, Gen. Antonio Benavides, left, gives instructions to a soldiers during a security operation that is part of the "Secure Homeland" initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela. The murder rate doubled during the 14-year-rule of the late President Hugo Chavez as cheap access to guns and an ineffective justice system fed a culture of violence in slums like Petare, parts of which have become no-go zones for outsiders, including police. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 1:41:57 PM EST
In this photo taken April 30, 2013, Mauri Pastano, 47, a supporter of Venezuela's opposition, smiles as he poses for a photo in his home in Caracas, Venezuela. Husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, parents and children find themselves on opposite sides of the bitter fight between Nicolas Maduro and an opposition that accuses the socialist government of using fraud and intimidation to win the presidency. Pastano's 71-year-old father chides his children for backing the opposition, calling them ungrateful for all that the late President Hugo Chavez had done for the country during his 14 years in power. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 1:41:57 PM EST
In this photo taken April 30, 2013, Jose Pastano, 71, speaks during an interview at his house in Caracas, Venezuela. In a country evenly split between the ruling party and opposition, countless families have been torn apart by political divisions. The retired bus mechanic chided his children for backing Venezuela's opposition, calling them ungrateful for all that the late President Hugo Chavez had done for the country during his 14 years in power. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 8:22:27 PM EST
An activist shows a painting of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during a rally with Maduro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Maduro said their two countries are more closely aligned than ever despite the deaths of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and of Nestor Kirchner, Fernandez's husband who preceded her in the presidency. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:16:10 PM EST
This April 12, 2013 photo, shows the Ebococa industrial plant in Villa Tunari, Bolivia. Bolivia's President Evo Morales has convinced regional allies to both invest in coca food processing plants in Bolivia and import coca products to their own countries. The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sank $900,000 in the Ebococa plant in Villa Tunari, which Morales had trumpeted as the country's first to produce coca-based food. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Posted: 5/4/2013 11:08:23 AM EST
In this April 25, 2013 photo, a young man dives into Puerto Cabello's harbor, near El Palito refinery, Venezuela. The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. Yet when Chavez died in March he left Venezuela's cash cow, its state-run oil company, in such dire straits that analysts say $100-a-barrel oil may no longer be enough to keep the country afloat barring a complete overhaul of a deteriorating petroleum industry. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Posted: 5/4/2013 11:08:22 AM EST
In this April 25, 2013, motorists drive past the El Palito refinery, near Moron, Venezuela. The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. Yet when Chavez died in March he left Venezuela's cash cow, its state-run oil company, in such dire straits that analysts say $100-a-barrel oil may no longer be enough to keep the country afloat barring a complete overhaul of a deteriorating petroleum industry. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Posted: 5/4/2013 11:08:22 AM EST
In this April 25, 2013 photo, a surfer walks along the shore near the refinery el Palito in Moron, Venezuela. The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. Yet when Chavez died in March he left Venezuela's cash cow, its state-run oil company, in such dire straits that analysts say $100-a-barrel oil may no longer be enough to keep the country afloat barring a complete overhaul of a deteriorating petroleum industry. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 6:55:36 PM EST
A supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds a picture of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez during a May Day rally in Caracas May 1, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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Posted: 4/26/2013 4:58:30 PM EST
Plastic wrapped busts of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez sit for sale at a market in Moron, Venezuela, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said Thursday the opposition would go to the Supreme Court to challenge the results of the April 14 presidential vote, which was narrowly won by Chavez's political heir, Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:18:25 PM EST
In this April 20, 2013 photo, Miguel Marcano, a private electricity worker, stands behind a fence at his home in Valencia, Venezuela. A dozen voters interviewed across the country, including Marcano, repeated similar explanations for their first opposition vote: anger at food shortages, electrical blackouts, government corruption and inefficiency and a personal dislike for the ruling party presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro, a former foreign minister who talks constantly about late President Hugo Chavez but doesn't share his mentor's charisma, talent for public speaking or long list of projects and proposals for improving Venezuela. Another factor was dissatisfaction over the luxurious lifestyles of high-ranking government officials who drive high-end cars and live in upscale neighborhoods, despite their purported socialist ideas. “Chavez had economic projects, projects to improve production, an education project,” said Marcano. “We never knew much about Maduro. I don't know what he's like as a leader.” (AP Photo/Michael Weissenstein)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 3:29:17 PM EST
Supporters of President-elect Nicolas Maduro and the late Hugo Chavez gather outside the Parliament building where Maduro's inaugural ceremony takes places, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 19, 2013. The opposition boycotted the ceremony, hoping that the ruling party's last-minute decision to allow an audit of nearly half the vote could change the result in a the bitterly disputed presidential election.(AP Photo/Gil Montano)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 3:29:17 PM EST
A woman holds up images of President-elect Nicolas Maduro and the late Hugo Chavez as supporters gather outside the Parliament building where Maduro's inaugural ceremony takes places, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 19, 2013. The opposition boycotted the ceremony, hoping that the ruling party's last-minute decision to allow an audit of nearly half the vote could change the result in a the bitterly disputed presidential election. (AP Photo/Gil Montano)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 4:33:30 PM EST
Elvira Guzman mourns over the body of her husband, 45-year-old Jose Luis Ponce, a Chavista militant who was allegedly killed on Monday in a confrontation with opposition supporters, as another person places an image of Chavez on his coffin during his wake in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. The political heirs of Hugo Chavez filled Venezuela's airways Wednesday with a steady drumbeat of attacks on the man who says they stole the presidency from him. They called opposition leader Henrique Capriles a coup-plotter and said he was inciting post-election violence that had claimed seven lives, including Ponce, and injured 61. Capriles called the government assault a smoke screen to divert attention from his demand for a recount of every ballot from Sunday's election. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 4:33:30 PM EST
A "Chavista" demonstrator, and supporter of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, holds a photo of the late President Hugo Chavez during a march in front of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has presented a series of allegations of vote fraud and other irregularities to back up his demand for a vote-by-vote recount for the presidential election. Maduro, the hand-picked successor of the late Hugo Chavez, was declared the winner by 262,000 votes out of 14.9 million cast, and Capriles contends the purported abuses add up to more than Maduro's winning margin. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 5:47:09 PM EST
A man draws an image depicting the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a gathering in support of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas April 16, 2013, a day after youths in Caracas and other cities blocked streets, burned tires and fought with police. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
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Posted: 4/17/2013 4:26:15 PM EST
A man draws an image depicting the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a gathering in support of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas April 16, 2013, a day after youths in Caracas and other cities blocked streets, burned tires and fought with police. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
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Posted: 4/17/2013 12:26:18 PM EST
A man draws an image depicting the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a gathering in support of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas April 16, 2013, a day after youths in Caracas and other cities blocked streets, burned tires and fought with police. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
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Posted: 4/17/2013 12:26:18 PM EST
A man draws an image depicting the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a gathering in support of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas April 16, 2013, a day after youths in Caracas and other cities blocked streets, burned tires and fought with police. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
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Posted: 4/17/2013 11:26:49 AM EST
A man draws an image depicting the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a gathering in support of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas April 16, 2013, a day after youths in Caracas and other cities blocked streets, burned tires and fought with police. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
