1.   Chavez was later sworn-in as Venezuelan president.

2.   He wanted the country to know that he and other military men were steadfastly opposed to the left-leaning, mercurial Venezuelan president.

3.   Just when it seemed that former Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez had used up his nine political lives, he shows he might have a tenth.

4.   One of its first contracts was to do a marketing study for the daughter and son-in-law of a former Venezuelan president, Gonzalo and Luisana Moreno of Caracas.

5.   The Venezuelan president spoke to a gathering of business executives and media leaders before he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

6.   A Western Sahara rebel leader will visit Venezuela on Monday for talks on creating an independent state in his disputed north African homeland, the Venezuelan president announced Sunday.

7.   And like Chavez, most previous Venezuelan presidents preferred statist economic management to free-market policies.

8.   Chavez and Jagdeo hope to discuss the border dispute when the Venezuelan president visits Guyana early next year, Jagdeo added.

9.   Colombians have long believed that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is sympathetic to the rebels, a charge he denies.

10.   Economic challenges facing new Venezuelan president are gargantuan.