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Chávez from Cuba tells Venezuela he is undergoing cancer treatment

Friday, July 1st 2011 - 03:26 UTC
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Doctors detected and removed a cancerous tumor from Hugo Chavez's body, the Venezuelan president announced in a speech broadcast on state-run VTV Thursday night. Read full article

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  • ElaineB

    I think we all knew this already.

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Get well Hugo!!

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 05:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Beef

    As someone who lost his mother to cancer I say get well soon Mr Chavez.

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 06:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    It may be that Chavez genuinely thinks Venezuela is too immature a country to be able to handle democracy;
    or maybe his brand of socialism can only be introduced and sustained by removing democracy, replacing it with a pseudo-democratic dictatorship.

    In any event, Chavez's (terminal?) illness presents an opportunity for a new start for Venezuela.

    He and the other rulers of this dictatorship CAN make the move to joining the 'real' world, turning their backs on the failed (communist)/dictatorships (USSR/Cuba/Iran/North Korea/etc) .

    Venezuela's dictatorship has made a few rich and kept the vast majority of the Venezuelan people very poor in a very oil-rich country.

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • jorge ferreiro

    Freedom loving people hope that the parasitic, Socialist Chavez has a rapid and painful death. The devil awaits him. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy and oppressed freedom. Hasta la vista Parasite.

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DiegoOliva

    Get well Hugo!! dictatorship??? hahaha!!! has been winning elections with more than 60% of the votes from the 99, my god!

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GA3

    Nobody is above the Law for sure ....

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Beef

    Yes Chavez is a disaster for the Venezuelan economy and for progressive politics in general. However, he is a man as am I and although I cannot stand the man or his politics I still have to wish him well in what is a difficult time for anyone; whether I like them or not.

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Artillero601

    Well said !!

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    You are all very generous.
    I see even the Libyan women in a frenzy of adulation for their embattled leader; some people love the most vicious of people!
    I feel that it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jeff

    Cancerous tumor undergoes surgery to have a Chavez removed from around it!!

    Jul 01st, 2011 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Sergio Vega

    I hope that Huguito have the death the he deserve....as well as he have made a lot of his countrymen unhappies, poor and hopeless....

    There are good men and bad men and he is the last kind of...for sure. He is a cancerous tumor in the Venezuelan body and he would be removed or that body will die...with millions of Venezuelan with it....
    If Huguito lives.... R.I.P. Venezuela .....so.......Viva Venezuela !!!!!

    Jul 02nd, 2011 - 03:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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