The leadership of Nicolás Maduro has brought Venezuela to the verge of revolution as its mismanaged economy collapses.

Why the opposition in Venezuela is hopeful it can defeat the governing Socialist party in the home state of Hugo Chavez.

1. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on podium, unidentified man shakes hand of Chavez and hugs Lula

2. Pan across podium, zoom in to men shaking
hands
3. Chavez and...

AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian...

1. Official car arrives; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gets out and greets Indian counterpart A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

2. Cutaway photogr
apher
3. Chavez greets Indian Prime Minister Manm
ohan Singh
4. Cutaw
ay...

HEADLINE: Raw Video: Venezuela''s Chavez celebrates 57th birthday

CAPTION: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and said he intends to stay in power for two more decades as he celebrated his 57th...

President Hugo Chavez said he's recovering quickly from tumour surgery in Cuba - and the first photographs of the Venezuelan leader to appear since the operation show him smiling and chatting with former Cuban leader Fidel...

1. Plane on tarmac with Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on board

2. Correa exiting
plane
3. Correa walking past military guard
of honour
4. Various of Tabare Vazquez, President of Uruguay,...

1. Mid of Honour Guard carrying wreath at Revolution Square

2. Mid of the Chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, Wu Bangguo and the President of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo...

1. Plane taxiing

2. Pull out from close up, plane on r
unway
3. Felipe Perez Roque, Foreign Minister of Cuba, emerges
from plane
4. Perez Roque walking
with officials
5. Convoy arriving at
presidential palace...

1. Wide shot of Pope in Pope mobile making its way in convoy to airport, streets lined with faithful

2. Mid shot of Pope mobile with police motorbike e
scort
3. Pope passing
in wagon
4. Pope waving from...

1. Bolivian President, Evo Morales, walking up to media at the United Nations Headquarters in New York

2. Cutaway of m
edia
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, Bolivian P
resident:
"In this...

1. Pan police scattering protesters

2. Wide protesters running through tea
r gas
3. Police beating
protester
4. Police firing tea
r gas canisters
5. Police escortin
g detained...

1. Wide, zoom in on protestors running

2. Mid of protestors throwing bottles at po
lice
3. Mid of protestors burning piles
of rubbish
4. Wide of protestors surrounded by tear gas th
rown by police...

1. Wide of Russian ships nearing port

2. Wide of Russian ship (Pedro El Grande) and support v
essel
3. Wide of Russian ship alon
gside port
4. Mid of sailor with Russian ship (Pedro El...

1. Wide shot of Chavez supporters rioting

2. Mid shot of burning rubber and wood on middle of s
treet
3. Police shooting tear gas against dem
onstrators
4. Riot police grouped cov
er with...

1. Woman sweeping next to burnt out car

2. Discarded banner from Friday's pr
otest
3. Newsp
aper shop
4. Various newspaper headlines about tw
o people killed
5. Cl
osed petrol station...

Night shots

1. Chavez amongst crowd on his way back to presidential p
alace
2. Wideshot of crowds c
elebrating
3. Entrance to pres
idential palace
4. Cutaway to
press inside palace
5. Hugo...

Mute

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has begun a whirlwind Middle East tour of OPEC countries aimed at forging unity among OPEC's fractious mem
bers.
Chavez started his trip on Monday in Saudi Arabia, where...

1. Angry demonstrators close by to military base behind walls in Caracas

2. Demonstrators shou
ting
3. Various of small confrontations between pro and anti Chavez demo
nstrators
4. Demonstrators talking to...

1. Wide shot of Chinese Foreign Ministry and Bolivia Embassy officials walking toward jet carrying Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales

2. Mid shot of Morales getting off
plane
3. Wide shot Morales being greeted,...

1. Close of plane carrying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez taxiing on runway

2. Wide of plane taxiing with official Chinese delegation waiting to meet C
havez
3. Close of soldier
s marching
4. Chavez...

1. Wide of meeting exterior

2. Various of delegates s
eated
3. Ecuadorian president Raf
ael Correa
4. Indonesia vice presid
ent Jusuf Kalla
5. Zoom in on Iranian president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
6. King...

1. Wide of Llao Llao resort with mountains behind

2. Tracking shot of helicopter passing r
esort
3. Close u
p of hotel
4. Hotel with Nahuel Hu
api lake behind
6. Various of security a
t Llao Llao...