The Venezuelan president promises period of peace and prosperity as the opposition and US continue to reject his rule.

Chavez personally anointed Mr Maduro, a former bus driver, as his chosen successor as he was dying from cancer in 2012. He has since presided over 12 years of economic collapse and the brutal ...

Maduro is a former bus driver hand-picked by the late socialist icon Hugo Chaves to succeed him upon his death in 2013. Maduro has overseen the oil-rich country's decline into economic ruin and ...