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In 2013, Cesar Chavez was elected president but consequently passed away due to cancer. Nicolás Maduro was then elected president through a special election with a narrow margin of a 50.62% majority. He quickly converted Venezuela’s democracy into a dictatorship in the following November by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_by_decree" target="_blank">rule of decree</a>, which he would then occasionally relinquish for short periods of time.