CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez announced Friday that was about to return to Venezuela after three weeks in Cuba, where operated a new tumor cancerous a few months before the elections in which aspirará for re-election convalesce.
representative of 57 years, which had been declared cured last year, will in the coming weeks to radiotherapy treatment to combat the relapse of cancer was diagnosed and which has forced him to slow down its usual pace after three surgeries.
“Good afternoon, good world.”
We are now taking off from Jose Marti International Airport. “Heading south, towards La Patria”, published the President on the social network Twitter, without giving details on his health.
“Raul (Castro) came to say goodbye to the airport and also send a martiano and Bolivarian greeting!” Viva Cuba! Viva Venezuela! “, said Chavez in another message, after reporting that he had eaten with former Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Meanwhile, uncertainty reigns in the oil country, given that the Government saves the details about the disease and the treatment of the President with Hermeticism and speculation about his condition multiply.
Analysts and physicians indicate that a radiotherapy treatment often cause side effects that could curb the momentum of the loquacious representative, who has become accustomed to Venezuelans to Marathon speeches and daily interventions in public events.
It can play him against representative, favourite for the October elections, since you will have to download the pace just in moments that should enter into face campaign for his re-election.
The ruler facing the single opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles, who with 39 years has demonstrated his youth and energy in search of votes in the most recondite places of the country.
The return of Chavez seeks, Furthermore, placate infighting in the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) which were fired in the absence of the President.
President said the weekend that their “vital parameters” are normal and which had healed well after the last surgery, in an attempt to show that its recovery will be quick.
The retired military has not specified how or where the radiation will be held, but a medical source close to the case told Reuters that the Caracas military Hospital is ready to receive it for several days.
(Additional report of Mario Naranjo and Marianna Párraga.) (Edited by Silene RamÃrez)
