Venezuela's president replaced

Saturday, April 13, 2002

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's military tapped a leading businessman Friday to replace former leftist president Hugo Chavez, whose combative rule was ended by army commanders after a bloody repression of a huge street protest.

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