Tag: Hugo Chávez

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 06:36 UTC

  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.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 09:39 UTC

  Brazil closely following events in Venezuela because of Chavez condition

  

  Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Antonio Patriota revealed that Brasilia is following closely the situation in Venezuela because of the medical condition of President Hugo Chavez, to whom he sent a message of quick recovery.

• Monday, May 14th 2012 - 04:34 UTC

  Chavez one man show to convince followers his doing fine

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strode, sang and gave a rousing speech on Friday in a careful show of vigour after his latest cancer treatment in Cuba fanned rumours he was dying five months before an election.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 07:06 UTC

  Chavez under treatment in Cuba names a potential “transition council”

  

  President Hugo Chavez, in Cuba for cancer treatment, named key members of a Council of State Wednesday led by his Vice president, which some analysts see as a potential transitional body.

• Monday, April 30th 2012 - 23:54 UTC

  Chavez signs labour bill and leaves for Cuba to continue radiation treatment

  

  Clutching a crucifix and holding back tears, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Monday appeared live on television for the first time in 17 days, saying he was counting on Christ for help as he returns to Cuba for more cancer treatment.

• Friday, April 27th 2012 - 00:36 UTC

  Foreign Minister Maduro could replace Chavez given his growing fragile health

  

  Venezuelan journalist Nelson Bocaranda said that for the first time President Hugo Chavez is thinking of naming his faithful Foreign Affairs minister Nicolas Maduro as his successor, given the seriousness of the cancer the leader is suffering.

• Thursday, April 26th 2012 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez is back in Caracas, “with any adverse reaction to the treatment”

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returned home after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba as the state television showed images of the Head of State chatting with his vice president and other aides after arriving at Caracas' international airport early Thursday.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 02:56 UTC

  Video on Chavez playing bocce to dispel rumours about his health condition

  

  The Venezuelan government on Tuesday broadcast a video of President Hugo Chavez playing the European bowling game of bocce in Cuba in a new effort to quash rumours that he was dying of cancer while out of the country.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 00:58 UTC

  Chavez blasts “psychological rumours warfare” and says on Thursday he returns to Venezuela

  

  A healthy-sounding President Hugo Chávez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba on Monday to dispel rumours fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment at a hospital in Havana.

• Tuesday, April 17th 2012 - 06:58 UTC

  Chavez supports nationalization of YPF; offers Venezuela’s experience in the matter

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez received late Monday the first international support for her announced takeover of YPF from the Spanish corporation Repsol: the Venezuelan government and President Hugo Chavez, revealed the Foreign Affairs ministry.