CARACAS (Reuters) – the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, fulfill its promise of rest after the treatment of radiotherapy which is being subjected to fight cancer, said on Monday the Minister of health, Eugenia Sader, thereby compelling him to lower the rate of activity in full electoral campaign.
Chávez began Saturday in Cuba, which will require five cycles and treatment side effects could limit its presence in day-to-day politics and in his career for re-election in elections in October, which could be the hardest that faced since that came to power in 1999.
Sader “He promised that he would make his resting and we are confident that it will meet”, said in an interview with the State channel VTV. “The patient of which you speak, our Commander, is a disciplined patient” added.
From the first surgical intervention that was submitted in June of last year to remove a cancerous tumor the size of a baseball, the Socialist leader of 57 years tried to put the brakes on his busy agenda full of tours and extensive speeches.
Despite to himself said that it was will to comply with the order to rest, many times acknowledged that his daughters scolded it for breaking breaks and lunch hours.
After a second operation in February of this year, by a small tumor that marked the recurrence of cancer, the retired military assured that it will continue to the discipline of a cadet.
“He is fully active”, Sader said without giving further details on the State of health of Chávez.
Venezuelans and operators of markets and analysts wonder if Chavez will be in shape to compete for a new six-year term, question which accentuates as the month of July, approaching date in the campaign formally begins.
Chávez will be measured in the polls with the single candidate of the opposition, Governor Henrique Capriles of 39 years.
The ruler, taking economic and social measures in the oil nation which describes as “revolutionary”, has regularly traveled to Cuba, amid criticism from opposition by not delegating power or not do in Venezuela.
Sader argued that the decision to continue the treatment in Cuba is due to there “you have an environment of tranquility, not so many people,” as opposed to Venezuela, where “everyone wants to play it”.
Chavez said on Sunday that will return to Venezuela on Thursday, March 29 and a few days later will travel to Cuba again to undergo a second round of radiation therapy, but did not specify will culminate when the full treatment.
Despite doubts about his health, recent polls give Chavez an advantage of more than 20 points on Capriles, although a respected pollster says that the President and opposition leader are in a technical tie that will reject by the undecided.
