Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro attends the National Assembly inauguration in Caracas

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)