 In 2005, he ran again as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies to represent a different zone (District 41), but was not elected.He was later named Ambassador to Venezuela by President Michelle Bachelet, but presented his resignation in mid-2007, after accepting the political responsibility for unveiling a private conversation with the President on the Venezuelan television channel teleSur regarding the 2006 Chilean vote for the United Nations Security Council.Claudio Huepe died of a heart attack on May 11, 2009, while visiting Caracas, Venezuela.