CARACAS (Reuters) – the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, said on Friday that continues recovering after having been operated in Cuba and was shown in photographs with Fidel Castro, although he offered no information on the studies that would disclose if reappeared the cancer that was treated last year.
Relapse of military retired 57-year-old has shaken the country Member of OPEC, which in October held elections in which Chávez aspires to a new re-election after 13 years in power.
“I am beginning to lift flight again and I will be with you again.” “All the days, months and years I left of life, lifting the homeland of the future”, said in telephone dialogue from Cuba with Venezuelan State television.
Despite their constant phone calls and messages through the social network Twitter the past few days continue circulating versions on his State of health.
The night of Friday, Venezuelan communication Minister Andres Izarra published several screenshots of Chavez in which appeared walking or together with the Cuban leader Castro, with whom would have talked two hours.
In photos, Izarra said that they were of “this afternoon” and taken during the visit of the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, saw the Venezuelan leader in sportswear and smiling.
“Still recovering I rapidly.” I was eating lunch. “Doing the diet of recovery: a small steak with rice, Pawpaw juice and I am taking a divine Chamomile tea”, expressed in the contact that lasted 20 minutes and that cut off, according to said the Socialist leader, to start your evening walk.
“No can delay a minute treatment”, said without specifying if it is receiving medication.
The health of the President remains suspended the political future of the South American nation that Chavez has resisted to delegate the power to Vice President ElÃas Jaua, who in the coming months must leave his post to launch his campaign for Governor of Miranda.
Without a successor to clear and ratified as candidate of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Chávez has stressed the need for its heterogeneous support bases to remain United during his absence.
(Diego Oré and Chinea Eyanir additional report); (Edited by Cesar Illiano)
