Maduro asked in mock surprise after hearing a noise among the crowd while speaking from the podium. Maduro, a former bus driver and trade unionist, has clung to power for over a decade through a mix ...

Maduro, a 62-year-old former bus driver who has been in power since the death of his famed predecessor Hugo Chavez in 2013, is set to be sworn in for another six years on Friday. But only a ...

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 ...

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

Maduro was sent to communist Cuba in 1986 for a year of ideological instruction — his only studies after high school. Upon returning home, he found work as a bus driver and union organizer.

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 ...