Chavez admits he is currently working 8 hours a day or less and resting to recover
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez broke his weeklong silence to say that “unfortunately” he will not continue being that “runaway” horse that never slept, and said he now works only eight hours a day and sometimes less.
“I must accept it and here I am accepting it and I confess it to the country: unfortunately I will not continue to be that runaway horse out there,” Chavez told state-run VTV television with reference to the repose doctors ordered and that, he said, kept him shut away all week.
The populist president said he continues to recover from the last cycle of radiation therapy, that he is currently working only eight hours a day or less and that he is resting and keeping to a diet, doctors’ recommendations that he is “strictly” following.
Chavez underwent radiation therapy after having a cancerous tumour removed last February, a reoccurrence of the cancer he suffered almost a year ago.
“I’ve spent this week shut away here, working but strictly following doctors’ orders to recover as quickly as possible from the normal effects of radiation therapy, and I’m gradually getting better,” he said.
He said that he asked God to give him “the strength of a buffalo rather than that of a horse” to sustain his health and “get well once and for all.”
In the interview, the president expressed his satisfaction at this week’s announcement that the economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter.
Less than five months until Venezuela’s presidential elections, opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is slipping in the polls and now trails Chavez by a significant margin.
Analysts say the reasons for his tepid showing in the polls includes the fact that his campaign still lacks a mass presence in the country and because voters’ attention is largely focused on Chavez’s health issues.
Nonetheless, the same analysts say that there is still time in the 4 1/2 months remaining for Capriles to gain sufficient voter preference to win the election, though he must climb at least 17 percentage points to overtake Chavez.
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Don't be fooled, that is the result of the steroid treatment that his doctors are using to supercharge his immune system. The real problems comes when they have to turn the supercharger off.
I liked the 'runaway' horse quip. I think the stable door has been shut too late on the cancers however.
Is he playing with a toy car on his desk?
May 21st, 2012 - 01:57 pm
Actually he seems to playing with TWO toy cars!!!
In 2009 a wealthy Venezuelan enlisted by the Chavez government to quell a political scandal involving a suitcase stuffed with cash was sentenced to 4 years in a US prison. Testimony in the two-month trial raised allegations that the suitcase was part of a larger gift of about $5 million from Chavez for the political campaign of CFK.
He needs a break poor man,
Give him a KIT-KAT
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Well spotted, I had to blow the photo up before I saw the one under his arm.
10 Briton
Or a 0.22rf lr hollowpoint bullet in the head would cure all OUR problems with this moron.
Chav hit nail on the head when he described himself as a runaway horse. very apt.
I suspect that was an uncharacteristcally funny post from Guzz. :o)
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