** Chávez calls State TV from hospital in Havana

** Ensures feel good

** rumors about its severity persist

(Updated with data, details)

CARACAS (Reuters) – the President of Venezuela, Hugo

Chavez, said he recovers from surgery for an injury that

could mark the reappearance of cancer suffered by year

in a brief telephone from Cuba than last ended

five days of silence kept in suspense to the country

Caribbean.

The retired, military that after 13 years in power will try to

in the presidential elections of October a new six-year term,

said with leisurely tone that is already walking, eating and

contact with his ministers.

“I’m going well (…)” Since yesterday I’m walking, touring

corridors. I’m a very good diet. I am preparing

for the walk at noon and then comes an auyama soup

(pumpkin) “, argued in its brief telephone contact.

The health of Chavez, 57, is the factor that divides

waters in the political scenario of the oil country, given that a

Chávez who cannot be active in the election campaign or

should be a step to the side would give greater opportunities to the

opposition front.

Earlier on Thursday, the Vice President Elias Jaua said

they still expect the results of the studies to the tissues

were extracted in surgery, what

will reveal the real state of health representative.

But immediately said that “the President is in full

exercise of its mandate, ruling and making decisions for the

Venezuelan people”.

“Let’s wait for the results, but whatever it is,

we are going to defeat, Hugo Chávez has the physical strength and

the love of a people to overcome any difficulty and achieve

(in the elections) victory of the 7 of

October”, added.

Chavez will be measured at the polls in October with the Governor

Henrique Capriles, the single candidate of the opposition, but the

need a long treatment could complicate the

active participation of the President in the campaign.

Last week, before travelling to Cuba to operate

Chavez said that with “with cancer or no cancer” was going to achieve

a great victory against Capriles.

Rumors persist

Intervention in Cuba is the third in less than a year to

which has undergone Chávez. In mid-June is him

he extracted a carcinogen of a baseball-sized tumor

and the representative then went through four rounds of chemotherapy.

Chavez pleaded at the end of the 2012 free of cancer, by

that the announcement of his relapse shook the country OPEC.

On Tuesday, Jaua said removed you in surgery

completely new injury in the pelvic area and in the

next few days analyse whether it was carcinogenic or not.

“Here we are in the battle and soon I’ll be late

with you physically also. “Until victory always,

we live and we shall win”, said Chávez dismissed the contact

which lasted less than 10 minutes.

The optimism of the Government for the recovery of the representative

has not been able to curb a series of rumors about the real state of

your health, including reports of local journalists and

aliens that give very specific details about the process of

recovery of Chávez.

The official to such information response failed

wait. Official Deputy Pedro Carreño accused that the

opposition generates “fatalistic diagnoses” the health of

Chávez.

“I have not met a diagnosis by a doctor that is

presented by the opposition which avizore on the horizon one

perspective for Chávez to recover. “These diagnostic no is

line with reality”, said.