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Judi Lynn

(160,449 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:45 AM Mar 2013

Venezuela Chavez having chemotherapy, says VP Maduro

2 March 2013 Last updated at 04:33 ET
Venezuela Chavez having chemotherapy, says VP Maduro

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is receiving chemotherapy in a Caracas hospital after cancer surgery in Cuba, the vice-president has revealed.

Nicolas Maduro was speaking after a Mass at a military hospital in honour of the president.

On Thursday, he went on TV to say Mr Chavez was battling for his life.

The Venezuelan leader, re-elected in October last year, returned to Caracas last month, but little has been heard about his condition until now.

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Chavez in chemotherapy but in ‘good spirits’: VP
Sunday, March 03, 2013
From Print Edition

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in “good spirits” but fighting for his life as he undergoes chemotherapy in a Caracas military hospital, the vice president said, revealing new details about the leftist leader’s treatment.

Nicolas Maduro, the leftist leader’s political heir, rejected on Saturday a wave of rumours about Chavez’s health and lashed out at the opposition, which accused him of lying about the president’s condition.

Maduro disclosed for the first time that Chavez began chemotherapy following his fourth round of cancer surgery in Cuba in December and decided to continue the treatment in Caracas on February 18.

“He has strength that is superior to the treatments that he is receiving and he is in good spirits, battling, receiving his treatments,” he told reporters after a mass for Chavez in a new chapel on the hospital grounds named “hope.” When he went into the operating room in Havana on December 11, Maduro recalled, Chavez told his aides that there was a “possibility that he would not come out” alive, but he survived it.

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http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1-163157-Chavez-in-chemotherapy-but-in-good-spirits-VP#sthash.JQE5R1sn.dpuf

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