The PhoenixVolume 14Issue 4March 2013

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Vatican’s search for the next PopeJonathon Warring

Editor in Chief

Pope Benedict XVI announced his resigna-tion from his position as head of the Catholic Church due to advanced age. “Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,” said Benedict, now 85, according to the Vatican.

This is the first time in the past 600 years that a Pope has resigned, most relinquishing the position due to death. The news reported-ly led to frenzied speculation as to who will be the Pope’s replacement. The decision of who will be his replacement will not be made by Benedict, but his influence will undoubtedly be felt. “I honestly feel the Pope should have a say in who his replacement is, he’s been at the position for so long that he will know who is right for the job,” said Hugh Curtwright.

His retirement, effective February 28, ig-nited debate as to whether his replacement will come from Europe, where the religion has deep roots, or from the developing world where the religion is gaining influence. Some candidates thought to be in consideration are Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson, Nigeria’s Car-dinal Francis Arinze, Canada’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Italy’s Angelo Scola. The time it took to elect Benedict Pope after John Paul II died lasted 17 days. However, since there

is no death to mourn and no funeral to plan it is believed that this period will be shortened,

Many critics of Benedict have welcomed his resignation because they believe he did not do enough to stop sexual abuse by priests or to even acknowledge the problem. Some also fault him for not doing enough to reverse a decline in church membership. Theologian Hans Kung has always been hard on Benedict while he was the Pope. Kung said, “Initially I thought that retreating in a convent to pray was a good decision. But now it seems this is not the plan. It is very dangerous to have a former Pope living in the actual Vatican, who does not live in a monastery. He will not live with monks, but with nuns who were at his service in the Vatican when he was Pope. He will have the same secretary, Father George. He wants to remain in contact with cardinals and with the new Pope. I was afraid of a “shadow pope” in the Vatican. Now it seems confirmed. He is certainly interested in prolonging his line, otherwise he would not have done it like this.”

Despite his criticism the pope plans to con-tinue his service to the church through a life dedicated solely to prayer. He plans to return to his former title of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger after he resigns. “I was deeply shocked,” said Marie Elena Perez, “I’m not very religious but the fact such a prevalent figure leaves his post is a lot to take in.” Now call this coinci-dence or divine intervention, but shortly af-ter Benedict anounced his resignation light-ning struck the roof of St. Peter’s Basilica.

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Courtesy of nbcnews.comLightning strikes St. Peter’s Basilica.

Courtesy of Inquirer NewsPope Benedict adresses a congregation.

By Priscilla Correa

Managing Editor

Each year there is a tradition representing the transition from underclass to upperclass. It consists of buying then receiving a ring at the end of your junior year in high school. Students are able to design their ring how-ever they wish. They choose cut and color of stone, type, style and color of ring they want. This year the Junior Ring Ceremony will be held at the Gymnasium for the Class of 2014.

Class of 2014’s President Jack Marquez gave some insight. “Overall, the ceremony shouldn’t pass 45 minutes, and the government and I re-ally like the design for this year’s ceremony.”

Junior Ring Ceremony set for success

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Marquez said, “There should be four balloon arcs and each one will spell out 2014, but be-tween the 20 and the 14 there will be the tradi-tional ring that you need to walk through and it will be a silver/platinum ring.” He finished, “The ceremony will begin with either Princi-pal Douglas Rodriguez or the Director of Herff Jones giving a speech, then escalate down to our class sponsor, then me, and will finish off with the rest of the government and after pass out all the rings.” Junior Class Sponsor Kristine Gon-zalez added, “The junior’s song of the ceremo-ny will be Let’s Go by Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo.”

Each junior was notified of the time, place and attire that is expected from the students that night. Gonzalez also said, “The Junior Ring Ceremony will take place at the gymnasium on

March 14 at 6 p.m. sharp. Girls are expected not to come in short-short skirts or dresses, and noth-ing too revealing. For guys, all administration is asking is to look clean cut with formal attire.” She concluded, saying, “I hope my Junior Class is as excited as I am for the ceremony.” Tickets are being sold at the activities office for $5 each, not including the two each student receives free. For any more information regarding the cere-mony, visit the school website or go to the ac-tivities office and speak to Ms. Dayami Alvarez.

Courtesy of Herff JonesSome of the options the juniors may choose from.

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By Jack Marquez

School News Editor

On Sunday February 24th the Oscars were pre-sented at the Dolby Theatre with Seth MacFar-lane as the host. What really took the stage was when one of the nation’s most powerful women came on a video screen to announce the Oscar for best picture, Michelle Obama. “I was stunned when I saw Michelle Obama presented the award. Simply because she is the first lady. Why was she at the Oscars?” said Abraham Suarez.

At evening’s end Jack Nicholson took the stage before the Best Picture pronouncement. Nicholson kept the tradition of announcing the award with the solo presenter, but what real-ly stunned the audience was when Nicholson said, “It’s my pleasure to introduce live from the White House, the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama.” On the huge screen above Nicholson, the First Lady appeared via satellite. She then said, “Thank you, Jack, and welcome to the White House, everyone. I am so honored to introduce this year’s nominees,” noting that she was excited to celebrate films that “lift our spirits, broaden our minds and

transport us to places we can never imagine.”

The First Lady then continued on to dis-cuss how the nominees have taught America to endure great odds. After praising the nom-inees, smiling, Obama turned over the over the announcement of the nominees to Nich-olson. Emily Lara said, “Her presentation of the award made my night.” Obama had the audience wondering if the video was prere-corded or if she was really appearing live from the White House. Then she picked up the en-velope to announce the best picture, Argo.

Some say this topped former President Bill Clinton’s presentingthe Golden Globe’s Best Picture, Lincoln. Hugh Curtwright said, “I really believe Obama outdid Clin-ton’s presentation at the Golden Globes.”

Mrs. Obama presents Oscar

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FeaturesPage 2 March 2013

By Nicole Soler Staff Editor

Natalie Wood is one of the many legend-ary actresses still talked about today. The one thing that still draws people to her as a hot topic is her death. “I didn’t really know her or how her death happened, but it is all a very strange mystery,” said senior Arantza Jarava. Wood was found dead floating face down in the ocean off Catalina Island Novem-ber 29, 1981 a couple hundred yards from her yacht “Splendour.” At the time, she had been on the yacht with her husband, actor Robert Wagner and close friend Christo-pher Walken. Wood was afraid of the water. There have been reports of injuries on Wood’s arm, wrist, and neck. This was claimed

to be a result of her trying to climb an inflat-able dinghy that supposedly occurred before she fell into the water. The Sheriff ’s Depart-

Wood murder mystery reopened

By Jack Marquez Staff Editor

Clinton Romesha, a former United States Army staff ’s sergeant received the nation’s high-est award for combat valor for his actions in Afghanistan in 2009. He is now the fourth liv-ing recipient of this award in Iraq and Afghan-istan. According to President Obama, Romesha will receive his Medal of Honor this February. The courage and dedication Romesha provid-ed by his service in the Bravo Troop, 3-61 Caval-ry 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Divi-sion, is being recognized by the President and his nation. “I’m extremely proud of Romesha and his commitment to his country. America should thank each and every one of our soldiers for all of their hard work, putting their lives at risk and never giving up on us,” said senior Alison Lopez. Romesha received the award due to his par-ticipation in one of the deadliest assaults on US troops in Afghanistan in the eastern province. According to the citation accompanying the award, Romesha, along with a few other soldiers, awakened to an attack by about 300 enemy fight-ers occupying the high ground on all four sides of their complex. While the enemies were firing

rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft guns and mortars, Romesha moved unconverted un-der intense enemy fire multiple times to gather up enforcements and fire back at the attackers.” I wouldn’t know how to react in a situation like this, especially with everything happening so fast. Romesha’s skills had to be very advanced and should be appreciated by our nation,” said junior Miguel Ramirez. As a result, 30 enemy fighters were destroyed by the air support he di-rected and several wounded troops were saved. According to the award citation, “Staff Ser-geant Romesha’s heroic actions throughout the day long battle were critical in suppressing an enemy that had far greater numbers. His extraor-dinary efforts gave Bravo Troop the opportunity to regroup, reorganize and prepare for the coun-terattack that allowed the troop to account for its personnel and secure Combat Outpost Keating.” In agreement with the CNN reports, the battle lasted for 12 hours on October 3rd, with an outcome of eight American soldiers and 100 militants killed. Romesha retired from the Army in 2011 and now lives in Minot, North Dakota. Romesha’s service was valiant to our country and if it weren’t for him many more American soldiers would’ve been lost.

Former soldier receives Medal of Honor

courtesy of whitehousePresident Obama proudly places the medal of honor on former Army staff sergeant Clinton Romesha.

courtesy of fanpopWood shows her beauty to people in America before her last few days.

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The boat Wood sailed on the night she disappeared.

By Luis Altuve Staff writer

Project Shield is small smaller than a Wii U controller. Fittingly, it looks like a por-table Xbox controller with a small flip-up screen. It's got analog joysticks, buttons, and controllers. Nvidia promises between five and 10 hours of gameplay on Shield. Still a prototype, the final name and design could change before the product goes to market, as soon as in a few months. "It's pure Android," says Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. All jacks are standard and the platform is open. It comes with a microSD card slot. Shield can connect to the cloud to play Android games, TegraZone games, and PC games for PCs with compatible GeForce graphics cards. It also supports multiplayer mode. The move from making chipsets to assem-bling the hardware that houses them is a bold one for Nvidia, which traditionally partners with device-makers to power their mobile and desktop computing hardware. Becom-

Nvidia announces ‘Shield’ gaming device at CES

ing a hardware manufacturer in addition to creating processors would give Nvidia an-other revenue stream, as well as greater lat-itude in device designs that house their chips. Nvidia does have some experience creat-ing devices. The company currently builds reference models that they then active-ly pitch to hardware partners, like Asus and Acer. Most recently, Nvidia partnered with Leyden Energy to provide a longer-last-ing battery for a tablet reference design.

ment states that some of these factors in the investigations may conclude her death to be a homicide. Also considered in this case are pos-sible foul play, drugs, and alcohol consumed by the actors and an argument that might’ve bro-ken out between Wood and Wagner the night of her disappearance. “This all seems as if this were foul play, Wood did not seem like the kind of person to really try something so risky, she was too successful to put her life on the line like that,” said freshman Daniela Vasquez. “In all honesty, I feel her legacy will be her acting successes, not her death,” said fresh-man Kiana Rievan. The actresses’ death was ruled as accidental to “unanswered” on her death certificate. Thirty years later and with a few more pieces of missing evi-dence, maybe this tragic loss for Hollywood

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Creator Yakamoto Hawkin presents the new “Shield” device at the CES convention.

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The shield is set to come out this holiday season.

courtesy of blog.laptopmag.comProduct testers feel the full Project Shield experi-ence during the CES convention.

has some buried voices and hidden secrets.

By Chris Amador Staff Writer

The Firebird dress code is usually red white and blue, but on March 17th Firebirds will ac-cessorize their uniform with green. St. Patrick’s Day is when we celebrate the saint who is respon-sible for bringing Christianity to Ireland. Many don’t celebrate the holiday for its religion, but it’s still a fun day to dress all in green and have good festivities with friends and family alike. Looking to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with

St. Patricks Day origin recognized this March

festivities? Visit the Emerald Isle with the 15th Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Festival on Holly-wood Boulevard and Harrison Street in Down-town Hollywood. Entrance is completely free, the festival will include games for kids, food trucks and an amazing parade which will start on Hollywood Boulevard and go down Harri-son St. Live bands will also perform traditional Irish tunes, and attendees like Charles Salazar said, “This is the best way to celebrate the history of St. Patrick’s Day.” This will be the ideal event to celebrate the great name of Saint Patrick.

courtesy of spirittourism Irieland celebrates St. Patrick’s day in a larger than life way with big parades, drinks at pubs, and wearing green hats and clothes such as the audience at most events.

Sports Page 3March 2013

By Allan Valiente Sports Editor

Strong finish from Winter sports

IOC strikes again, olympic wrestling to be removedBy Kevin Gonzalez Editor In Chief

Facing a wave of criticism from around the world, IOC President Jacques Rogge will meet with the head of wrestling’s governing body to discuss ways the sport can fight to save its place in the Olympics. The IOC executive board dropped wrestling from the program of the 2020 Games on Tuesday, a decision that

brought a sharp backlash from wrestling orga-nizations and national Olympic bodies around

courtesy of northjersey.comInternational Olympic Comittee President Jacques Rogge will hold a meeting in early March to discuss the status of wrestling in the olympics.

the world including the United States, Rus-sia and Iran. The move must still be ratified by the full International Olympic Committee in September, giving wrestling time to try to overturn a decision against a sport that dates back to the ancient Olympics and has been featured since the inaugural modern games in 1896. Rogge said Wednesday he has been contacted by Raphael Martinetti, the Swiss president of international wrestling federation

FILA, and was encouraged by the sport’s re-solve to make changes and fight for its place. “We agreed we would meet at the first op-

portunity to have discussions,” Rogge said at a news conference at the close of a two-day board meeting. “I should say FILA reacted well to this d i shear ten ing news for them. They vowed to adapt the sport and vowed to fight to be even-tually includ-ed in the 2020 slot.” Wrestling, which remains on the program for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, still has a chance to stay on the list for 2020, but the IOC is plan-ning to replace wrestling with the sport of golf. “The vote of yesterday is not an elimination of wrestling from the Olympic Games,” Rogge said. “Wrestling will partici-pate in the Games in Rio de Janeiro. To the ath-letes who train now, I say, ‘Continue training for your participation in Rio. Your federation is working for the inclusion in the 2020 Games.’ “ Wrestlers across the globe have started to protest and even created a petition to prevent golf from taking the 2020 position. They are worried on the future of the sport and the deci-sions effect on young athletes that have dreams to be Olympic wrestles. “I feel sorry for all those wrestlers who worked their --- off sacri-ficing their bodies for the sport they love and

that had wished to join their country’s Olym-pic team,” said Mike Rio, UFC and a National Wrestling champion. “Ancient Olympic wres-

tler would sometimes fight to the death. The IOC better understand we’re ready to do that again,” said Olympic wrestler Matt Valenti. Valenti’s quote has become the slogan for the #SaveOlympicWrestling movement. “Greco Roman wrestling was the original Olympic sport. Taking wrestling out of the Olympics makes the Olympics, well, not the Olympics,” said junior Christian Perez. The IOC’s decision has affected the view of the Olympics to Doral athletes. If the attempt to save wrestling in the Olympics fails, people plan to boycott the 2020 Olympics until they reconsider their decision.

courtesy of google.comA cartoon used to protest against the removal of wrestling from the olympics.

As the Floridian winter recedes and warm, familiar spring weather blossoms, winter sports at Doral Academy wrap up their seasons. For most of these teams it’s a crucial time of the year as they’re usually competing for a District, Regional and State championships. Each year they work relentlessly to go farther than the pre-vious season, and this year is exemplary of that. Doral soccer teams, both boys and girls, have established themselves as powerhouses through-out the county over the past couple years. This year the boys were ready to defend their District title. Unfortunately, they came up short against Booker T. Washington in the District semifinal. However, they attained a ranking of fourth in the county and defeated rival Ronald Reagan. They also defeated Sunset, the number one ranked team in the county. “There is no such thing as winning and losing, just winning and learning. Boys’ basketball also had a tremendous season. They had their best start in school his-tory, an eight-game winning streak. They also defeated rival Ronald Reagan, in an intense showdown that went into overtime. They ad-vanced to regionals for the second year in a row.

The girls on the other hand claimed redemp-tion as they defeated LaSalle in the District championship, who had defeated the Fire-birds last year for the title. The girls won their first District championship, but lost in Re-gionals against Ransom. “I worked hard for this for four years. It feels great to finally be a champion,” said senior Melissa Campana. Probably all expectations revolved around the wrestling team, which had talent to place sever-al of their wrestlers on a podium at the State championship. The team was anchored by their own “Big Three,” comprised of transfers Daniel Garcia, Christian Perez and Christopher More-no. They all made it to States last season, and were determined to do so again this year. They placed at nearly every tournament throughout the season and maintained a top five ranking in their respective weight classes in Florida the whole season. Stephen Moreno and Christopher Bentley also attained a top ten ranking in the state. Their hard work and accomplishments put Doral on the map as it got ranked top five in Class 1A. “We have one goal, and that’s states,” said Garcia. Ultimately Garcia won the Class 1A State Championship at 138 pounds, Chris-topher Moreno placed second at 120 pounds, and Christian Perez placed fifth at 126 pounds.

Super Bowl XLVIIBy Jonathan Warring Editor In Chief Super Bowl XLVII took place at the Mer-cedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans Louisi-ana on February 3rd at 6:30 PM. It was the Bal-timore Ravens who outlasted the San Francisco 49ers 34 to 31. Both teams overcame some of the best teams in the NFL to get this far. Balti-more beat out the Colts, Broncos and the Patri-ots, whereas San Francisco defeated the Packers and Falcons. This game marked the first time in Super Bowl history that two brothers faced off against each other as John Harbaugh coached the Ravens and Jim Harbaugh coached the 49ers. It was set to be a very important and emo-tional game for Ray Lewis as it was the last game he will ever play in the NFL. He re-tires at the end of this season. In the big game Lewis had seven tackles, four on his own and three assisted. His career will end with 2050 tackles, 41.5 sacks, 31 inter-ceptions, 19 forced fumbles and 19 fumble recoveries. The Ravens also pos-sessed Joe Flacco, a quar-terback known for sub-par performance throughout his career. However this season has seen him rise to become a quarterback who is in the same league as Peyton Man-ning and Tom Brady. In the Super Bowl he threw 22 com-pletions on 33 attempts accumulating 287 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. Now the 49ers have Colin Kaepernick. Many wonder how long he can run the ball before defenses pick up on it. Kaepernick has only been the starting quarterback for half the sea-son. According to Branndon Baez, “Kaeper-nick’s inexperience played no role whatsoever in their loss on Sunday. They had the chance during the blackout to regroup and get focused and even after that they couldn’t pull it out. The blame for the loss is to be placed on the team as a whole.” Kaepernick had 16 comple-tions on 28 attempts with 302 yards with one touchdown and one interception. He was also

able to score one touchdown on the ground. Other highlights of the game include a 108 yard return by Jacoby Jones to open the second half, tying the all-time record for return yards in a game. And of course no one will ever for-get the black out of half the lights in the Su-perdome that delayed the game for 34 minutes. This time saw players head out onto the field and stretch as they attempted to stay loose as they awaited their chance to return to the field. No one will be able to say this game was a blow out, only three points separated the two teams. As the confetti rained down, the Ravens celebrat-ed their second Super Bowl win in team history. “I believe the display of sportsmanship by the brothers was an important highlight of the

game,” said Pierre Perez. As the game ended John Harbaugh delayed his celebration until he reached midfield to shake hands with his brother Jim, who ended the exchange by pat-ting his brother’s cheek and saying “good job.” As Ray Lewis ended his hall of fame career he admits, “This game was never about me, it was about Joe Flacco.” As for their need to prevent a score from a team who rallied back from a 28 to six deficit Lewis said this, “There was no panic in us, we talked about that when we were on the goal line. We said that if we stopped them there, they don’t get in. That was the most amazing goal-line stand that I’ve ever been a part of.”

Messi wins Balon d’Or Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta won UEFA’s award for the best player in Europe, beating out team mate Lionel Messi along with Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo. Inies-ta, 28, inspired Spain to retain their crown at the 2012 Euro Cup. Surprisingly, Iniesta stole the win from Messi and Ronaldo who were the favorites to win best players. Messi and Ron-aldo picked up 17 votes, but were both three points shy of tying with Iniesta, who picked up 17 votes along with Cristiano Ronaldo. “Without my team mates at the Spanish National team and Barcelona I wouldn’t have won this individual trophy. I feel very privi-leged to be part of this generation of Spanish footballers,” said Messi. The award shows off a fine year for Iniesta and his team after he was also named as the player of the tournament in Euro 2012. In last year’s UEFA player of the year award was Messi was named as the best player in Europe, with fellow Barcelona star

Xavi Hernandez and Ronaldo finishing in second and third place respectively. “Mes-si is a monster, no one can beat him he is the best player of the century” said Luis Altuve. UEFA created the honor after France Football magazine combined its traditional European award with FIFA’s world player prize. Since then the traditional has carried on to this day.

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The 2013 Superbowl between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers, which Baltimore own.

By Giancarlo Rodriguez Sports Writer

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Back-to-back-to-back Balon d’Or winner Lionel Messi.

By Jonathon Warring

Editor in Chief

Despite anti-bullying campaigns, bullying remains on the rise in the United States. Philadelphia boy, Bailey O’Neill aged 12, has died as a victim of bullying. O’Neill lapsed into a coma Saturday March 2nd after suffering several and died the Sunday after. Coincidental-ly, March 2 was also his birthday,

O’Neill’s family said that two classmates jumped him during re-cess at Darby Township School last January. The boy suffered a concussion and a broken nose. The following day he began hav-ing seizures and the doctors were forced to place him into a coma. According to his grandmother Joy Fecanin “He needed blood trans-fusions after getting pneumonia.”

The following message was posted on the Building Hope for Bailey Facebook Page: “I would like to thank everyone who has prayed and supported Bailey and his family!! Bailey has been the strongest toughest boy I know.

By Jonathon Warring

Editor in Chief

Hugo Chavez, one of Venezuela’s most controversial leaders, has died. Chavez has been fighting cancer for years now and has recently sought treatment in a Cuban clinic. All across downtown Caracas places of business began closing and people hurried home. Many had looks of an-guish and incredulity on their faces.

Vice President Nicolas Mad-uro called on Venezuelans to gath-er in Bolivar Square located in the nations capital, named for the 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar, who Chavez claimed as an incredible inspiration. The vice president also called on every-one to respect the nation’s pain. “Those who never supported the comandante Hugo Chavez, re-spect the pain of the people. This

He has fought this battle long and hard. There just wasn’t a way to fix this. I wish I could say he will get better but I can’t. Bailey has gone to be with God today:( I love you Jina Risoldi with all my heart and I will help you through this. Bai-ley I love you!!! Please keep Bai-ley’s family in your prayers!!!”

The two students that jumped O’Neill did receive a two day sus-pension, but police have yet to state whether they will be crimi-nally charged. “I would like to see these kids punished,” said Fecanin, “Something has to be done. I don’t know what’s taking them so long.”

Delaware county District Attor-ney Jack Whelan said, “Investiga-tors are trying to determine if the injuries Bailey received in the fight caused his seizures.” Investiga-tors have interviewed several stu-dents that were on the playground the time the fight broke out. “We can assure them that we are going to continue with our investiga-tion,” said Whelan. The younger O’Neill sibling has been removed from school due to fear he will be the victim of bullying as well.

is the moment to think of our fam-ilies, of our country,” said Maduro.

Chavez leaves behind a socialist political movement firmly in con-trol of the nation, but with some doubt about how a new leadership will be formed. Chavez’s illness prevented him from taking the oath of office after he was re-elected on Oct. 7 and under Venezuela’s con-stitution, National Assembly chief Diosdado Cabello will take over as interim president. However there was no sign of Cabello as Maduro announced Chavez’s death. The constitution also says that elections should be held in 30 days. Before his death Chavez asked that his supporters should back Maduro as his successor. In the previous elec-tion Chavez beat out Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles, and is expected to represent the oppos-ing party in the coming elections.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dies at age 58

Victim of bullying dies

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The country is divided on how they feel about Chavez’s death. “This is the worst thing that could have happened to this country. Without Chavez I don’t know what will happen here. We poor people could be forgotten again.” said Venezuelan citizen Nelson

The family needs our support now more than ever.

Ramirez. However, Carlos Qui-jada told Fox News reporters that he was sad that death, rather than an election defeat, had written Chavez’s political obituary. “Now there is a lot of uncertainty about what is going to happen,” he said.

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