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In a 14 minute statement on national TV, President Hugo Chavez finally admitted that he had recent cancer surgery in Cuba.
Rumors about that had circulated widely...but until today...no details were given about Chavez's health challenge on 10 June.
Chavez said a malignant pelvic tumor was removed. He disclosed that he had another surgery for an unspecified cancer and said he was undergoing "complementary treatment".
There was no mention if it had spread.
VP Elías Jaua announced that Chavez may remain in Cuba...for up to 6 months!
“It cannot be that the president is incapacitated for six months to fully exercise his duties, and nothing happens,” said Teodoro Petkoff, editor of the opposition newspaper Tal Cual. “The vice president of the republic needs to take care of this.”
It became obvious that something serious was going on when Chavez's important 5 July summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders on Venezuela's Margarita Island was cancelled.
The summit was to be the triumphant return of a recovering and healthy Hugo Chavez to Venezuela.
It also was to be a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's independence from Spain...and the launch of Chavez's baby... CELAC/the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States...as an alternative to the OAS.The summit was to be the triumphant return of a recovering and healthy Hugo Chavez to Venezuela.
"I saw him looking very thin. His face looked very thin," said opposition politico Gustavo Azócar. "I find it strange that state television shows the president talking with Fidel Castro, but it does not broadcast him talking to the country," he added.
NEW!!!TO SEE FULL 14:53 Video of Chavez announcement...in ESP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpUe9fs5Ss8&feature=player_embedded#at=21
TO SEE: PR Effort With Fidel/Hugo Meeting :51 Reuters Video
