The World in Photos This Week

The United States retreats from the cliff; Chadian soldiers cross the border; a town in Spain has a flour fight.

JANUARY 4, 2013

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez underwent his fourth cancer-related surgery three weeks ago in Havana, Cuba, and has been bed-ridden ever since. Above, a woman walks past a mural of Chávez in Caracas on Jan. 1. FP's Democracy Lab has more on the Venezuelan leader's ailing health and what it means for the country's politics.

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