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Supportes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pray for his health during a meeting outside Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on January 10, 2013. With Chavez ailing and absent, Venezuela’s leftist government launches a new presidential term with a display of popular support on the day he was to be inaugurated. The Supreme Court cleared the cancer-stricken president to indefinitely postpone his re-inauguration and said his existing administration could remain in office until he is well enough to take the oath.AFP PHOTO/Leo RAMIREZ