Chavez wants to be 'president for life':
Venezuela's former defence minister Isaias Baduel, who was jailed last year on corruption charges, has said his onetime ally Hugo Chavez wants to be ``president for life'' in a country ``in shambles''.
President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against US influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.