Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro attends the National Assembly inauguration in Caracas [Maduro construye su liderazgo al frente del Gobierno en ausencia de Chávez]

Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro attends the National Assembly inauguration in Caracas January 5, 2013. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s formal swearing-in for a new six-year term scheduled for January 10 can be postponed if he is unable to attend due to his battle to recover from cancer surgery, Maduro said on Friday. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA – Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT)