CARACAS (Reuters) -- President Hugo Chavez marked 10 years in office on Monday.

Chavez celebrated the milestone in the middle of a closely fought campaign for a February 15 referendum on allowing him to run for re-election.
Countries with small economies, such as Bolivia, Cuba and Honduras, will attend ceremonies to fete Chavez.
Chavez has repeatedly won elections in his 10 years in office and has overcome a coup, a national strike and a recall referendum. He remains popular among the OPEC nation's majority poor for spending oil wealth on clinics and schools and typically draws cheers at rallies for his speeches condemning the ""evil empire"" of the United States.
“We have done in 10 years what couldn't be done in one century,” Chavez wrote to his supporters on Sunday.