Caracas: President Hugo Chavez bid an emotional farewell laced with references to Jesus Christ and independence hero Simon Bolivar as he departed Venezuela for Cuba for urgent surgery to remove a tumour he says is probably malignant. Clasping the hand of his youngest daughter, Chavez addressed allies of his socialist political movement and troops standing at attention at the Miraflores presidential palace. "I say this from my gut: With cancer...
07:30 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Caracas: President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant. Chavez told Venezuelans on Tuesday that doctors in Cuba had over the weekend found a two-centimeter (less than an inch) lesion in the same place where they removed a cancerous tumor last year. The...
06:11 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday his government will close its consulate in Miami after the US government expelled a diplomat. Chavez said his government has decided the consulate will shut its doors in what he called an "administrative closing" in response to the consul's expulsion by the US State Department. Livia Acosta Noguera, Venezuela's consul general in Miami, was ordered out of the US last weekend followed...
09:24 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez defended his close ally Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday as tensions rose with the US over Tehran's nuclear program and a death sentence against an American man convicted of working for the CIA. The two leaders met in Caracas on the first leg of a four-nation tour that will also take Ahmadinejad to Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador. "They present us as aggressors," Chavez said of...
04:48 AM, Jan 10, 2012
La Fria: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez declared himself cancer-free on Thursday, four months after surgery to remove a malignant tumor that shook the South American nation ahead of a 2012 presidential vote. "I am free of illness," Chavez, 57, said in an address to Venezuelans after touching down from Cuba in a western state to make a pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine. Despite the ebullient socialist's declarations, doctors say it...
01:49 AM, Oct 21, 2011
Caracas: Over months, Venezuelan TV soap opera writer Leonardo Padron built a Twitter following of about 250,000 people by posting more than a dozen messages a day, many of them skewering President Hugo Chavez. On August 29, Padron issued a typical shot, "Chavez knows of the immense death toll that there is in this country, so why such indifference to the subject of insecurity?" Three days later, however, the tweets...
03:11 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he is certain he will pursue his re-election bid next year even as he struggles to overcome cancer. Chavez said in an interview published Monday in the government newspaper Correo del Orinoco that he hasn't "for an instant thought about withdrawing from the presidency." He said if there were physical reasons to step down he would do so but that he is pursuing his...
01:56 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he was preparing for a second round of chemotherapy in Cuba to eliminate the risk of malignant cells after completing what he called a successful first session. The announcement by the 56-year-old socialist leader that he had surgery in Havana last month to remove a baseball-sized cancerous tumor has called into question his fitness to run for re-election next year in the...
02:45 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned to Cuba to begin chemotherapy nearly a month after surgery to remove a tumor, and he is expressing optimism the treatment will help him survive his cancer. Chavez said he would start the treatment in Havana on Sunday in an attempt to ensure cancer cells do not reappear following last month's operation. "We're going to give it everything we've got," Chavez said in...
08:48 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday he may need radiotherapy or chemotherapy to treat his cancer, which has rattled the OPEC member nation he has dominated for 12 years. The 56-year-old socialist leader's most detailed comments to date on his condition raised the prospect of a lengthy health battle. Such a scenario could undermine Chavez's ability to govern Venezuela and run for re-election in...
03:50 AM, Jul 14, 2011
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez turned to philosophy and Twitter to describe his efforts to beat cancer on Monday, summoning the words of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "I find myself before my highest mountain and my longest walk," Chavez said in a message posted on his Twitter account. "That's how Zarathustra spoke!" That quoted a passage from Nietzsche's treatise "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None." Nietzsche's book...
01:55 AM, Jul 12, 2011
Caracas: Venezuela's ever-theatrical President Hugo Chavez made a surprise homecoming on Monday after cancer surgery in Cuba and declared himself "fine" despite speculation he may still require lengthy treatment. "Here I am, home and happy! Good morning, beloved Venezuela," a bubbly Chavez said, punching his fist in the air and singing a folk song after touching down in the early hours. "Now I'm going to get some rest." With their...
03:23 AM, Jul 05, 2011
Caracas: President Hugo Chavez's revelation that he is battling cancer raises questions about the future of his drive to bring socialism to Venezuela and create a Latin America free of Washington's influence. The biggest question, though, is just how sick is he? Suddenly, the issue isn't so much about how long Chavez should govern after 12 often tumultuous years in power, but how long he can. In a surprise announcement...
08:18 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez revealed on Thursday night that he is fighting cancer after having a tumor removed in Cuba, but assured his countrymen that he is doing well as he sought to cool growing questions about his health and ability to govern. Chavez said in a televised talk that the operation took out a growth in which there were "cancerous cells." The 56-year-old president said the surgery was...
10:36 AM, Jul 01, 2011
Caracas: Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday. "I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day. Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many...
01:56 PM, Mar 23, 2011
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