VENEZUELA-POLITICS-CHAVEZ-FAILED COUP-ANNIVERSARY

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro (R) looks at a portrait of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during the conmemoration of the 1992 failed coup led by Chavez, who was an army lieutenant colonel, against then president Carlos Andres Perez, in Caracas, on February 4, 2013. Ailing President Hugo Chavez, who had cancer surgery in December, is doing much better and recovering, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in remarks published Monday. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO