Hugo Chávez: people's hero

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Venezuelans want to know truth about Hugo's condition...

Protesters demand truth about Hugo Chavez’s health
Tue, Mar 05, 2013 - DIVIDED: Pro-Chavez supporters held another rally, while Venezuela’s vice president insisted cancer-stricken Chavez remained in charge

Hundreds of opposition protesters marched in Caracas on Sunday, chanting “We want the truth,” as they demanded that the Venezuelan government reveal more about the health of cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Waving Venezuelan national flags, the protesters rallied to a street where about 50 university students have staged a week-long sit-in to demand more transparency about Chavez’s condition. “We want to know what is going with Chavez’s health, if he is alive or dead, and we want elections,” said Dario Alberici, a 55-year-old public accountant. Pro-government supporters held their own rally for Chavez in another part of the capital, chanting “Uh, ah. Chavez won’t go.”

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro on Friday revealed that the leftist leader is undergoing chemotherapy in a Caracas military hospital, but said that Chavez remains in charge. In power for 14 years, the once omnipresent president has not emerged in public since undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 last year. Chavez was first diagnosed with cancer in the pelvic region in June 2011, but the government has never disclosed its exact nature, severity or location. “Nobody knows where he is,” 70-year-old engineer Hector Gonzalez said. “If he is recovering, they should show him. The country cannot continue in this uncertainty.”

Others said Venezuela was now under a de facto government as Chavez, who was re-elected in October last year, missed his Jan. 10 swearing-in ceremony. The Venezuelan Supreme Court backed the inauguration’s delay. “We are in limbo, in a very uncertain, very illegitimate and very unconstitutional situation,” said Juan Pablo Baquero, 33, a lawyer and university professor. When he left for Cuba on Dec. 8, Chavez told Venezuelans to vote for Maduro if he became incapacitated and an election was called.

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Venezuela: Chavez hit by new, severe infection
Mar 5,`13 -- President Hugo Chavez is breathing with greater difficulty as a new and severe respiratory infection has taken hold, Venezuela's government said, describing the cancer-stricken president's condition as "very delicate."

A brief statement read on national television by Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas late Monday carried the sobering news about the charismatic 58-year-old socialist leader's deteriorating health. Villegas said Chavez is suffering from "a new, severe infection." The state news agency identified it as respiratory. Chavez, 58, has been undergoing "chemotherapy of strong impact," Villegas added without providing further details. Chavez has neither been seen nor heard from, except for "proof-of-life" photos released in mid-February, since submitting to a fourth round of surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area. It was first diagnosed in June 2011.

The government says he returned home on Feb. 18 and has been confined to Caracas' military hospital since. Villegas said Chavez was "standing by Christ and life conscious of the difficulties he faces." He also took the opportunity to lash out at "the corrupt Venezuelan right" for what he called a psychological war seeking "scenarios of violence as a pretext for foreign intervention." He called on Chavez's supporters, who include thousands of well-armed militiamen, to be "on a war footing." Upon Chavez's death, the opposition would contest the government's candidate in a snap election that it argues should have been called after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on Jan. 10 as the constitution stipulates.

Indeed, the campaigning has already begun, although undeclared, with Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who Chavez has said should succeed him, frequently commandeering all broadcast channels Chavez-style to tout the "revolution" and vilify the opposition. Chavez has run Venezuela for more than 14 years as a virtual one-man show, gradually placing all state institutions under his personal control. But the former army paratroop officer who rose to fame with a failed 1992 coup, never groomed a successor with his force of personality.

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Venezuelans want to know truth about Hugo's condition...

Protesters demand truth about Hugo Chavez’s health
Tue, Mar 05, 2013 - DIVIDED: Pro-Chavez supporters held another rally, while Venezuela’s vice president insisted cancer-stricken Chavez remained in charge

Hundreds of opposition protesters marched in Caracas on Sunday, chanting “We want the truth,” as they demanded that the Venezuelan government reveal more about the health of cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Waving Venezuelan national flags, the protesters rallied to a street where about 50 university students have staged a week-long sit-in to demand more transparency about Chavez’s condition. “We want to know what is going with Chavez’s health, if he is alive or dead, and we want elections,” said Dario Alberici, a 55-year-old public accountant. Pro-government supporters held their own rally for Chavez in another part of the capital, chanting “Uh, ah. Chavez won’t go.”

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro on Friday revealed that the leftist leader is undergoing chemotherapy in a Caracas military hospital, but said that Chavez remains in charge. In power for 14 years, the once omnipresent president has not emerged in public since undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 last year. Chavez was first diagnosed with cancer in the pelvic region in June 2011, but the government has never disclosed its exact nature, severity or location. “Nobody knows where he is,” 70-year-old engineer Hector Gonzalez said. “If he is recovering, they should show him. The country cannot continue in this uncertainty.”

Others said Venezuela was now under a de facto government as Chavez, who was re-elected in October last year, missed his Jan. 10 swearing-in ceremony. The Venezuelan Supreme Court backed the inauguration’s delay. “We are in limbo, in a very uncertain, very illegitimate and very unconstitutional situation,” said Juan Pablo Baquero, 33, a lawyer and university professor. When he left for Cuba on Dec. 8, Chavez told Venezuelans to vote for Maduro if he became incapacitated and an election was called.

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Venezuela: Chavez hit by new, severe infection
Mar 5,`13 -- President Hugo Chavez is breathing with greater difficulty as a new and severe respiratory infection has taken hold, Venezuela's government said, describing the cancer-stricken president's condition as "very delicate."

A brief statement read on national television by Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas late Monday carried the sobering news about the charismatic 58-year-old socialist leader's deteriorating health. Villegas said Chavez is suffering from "a new, severe infection." The state news agency identified it as respiratory. Chavez, 58, has been undergoing "chemotherapy of strong impact," Villegas added without providing further details. Chavez has neither been seen nor heard from, except for "proof-of-life" photos released in mid-February, since submitting to a fourth round of surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area. It was first diagnosed in June 2011.

The government says he returned home on Feb. 18 and has been confined to Caracas' military hospital since. Villegas said Chavez was "standing by Christ and life conscious of the difficulties he faces." He also took the opportunity to lash out at "the corrupt Venezuelan right" for what he called a psychological war seeking "scenarios of violence as a pretext for foreign intervention." He called on Chavez's supporters, who include thousands of well-armed militiamen, to be "on a war footing." Upon Chavez's death, the opposition would contest the government's candidate in a snap election that it argues should have been called after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on Jan. 10 as the constitution stipulates.

Indeed, the campaigning has already begun, although undeclared, with Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who Chavez has said should succeed him, frequently commandeering all broadcast channels Chavez-style to tout the "revolution" and vilify the opposition. Chavez has run Venezuela for more than 14 years as a virtual one-man show, gradually placing all state institutions under his personal control. But the former army paratroop officer who rose to fame with a failed 1992 coup, never groomed a successor with his force of personality.

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He's dying?

 

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Chavez cancer fight ends...

Venezuela announces death of President Chavez
Mar 5,`13 -- Venezuela's defense minister is pledging that the military will remain loyal to the constitution in the wake of President Hugo Chavez's death.

Admiral Diego Molero appeared on national television to appeal for "unity, tranquility and understanding" among Venezuelans. He says troops will safeguard the sovereignty of the country.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Venezuela's vice president announced that President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday, ending 14 years of rule by the firebrand socialist but leaving his party firmly in control of the nation. Vice President Nicolas Maduro said that Chavez died "after battling a tough illness for nearly two years." The death apparently sets up a presidential election to replace Chavez, whose illness prevented him from taking the oath of office for the term to which he was re-elected last year. Under the constitution, the head of Congress, Diosdado Cabello, would assume the interim presidency.

The announcement came just hours after Maduro announced the government had expelled two U.S. diplomats from the country. Maduro also said "we have no doubt" that Chavez's cancer, which was first diagnosed in June 2011, was induced by foul play by "the historical enemies of our homeland." He compared the situation to the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, claiming Arafat was "inoculated with an illness."

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Chavez's cancer fight: a glance at cancer struggle
Mar 5,`13 -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has undergone surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatment since June 2011 for an undisclosed type of pelvic cancer. Key moments in his medical treatment have included:

- June 30, 2011: Chavez says on television from Cuba that he had a cancerous tumor removed from his pelvic region. He later says the tumor extracted was the size of a baseball.

- July 4, 2011: Chavez returns to Venezuela, but later travels to Cuba periodically for chemotherapy and medical tests.

- Sept. 23, 2011: Chavez says he completed chemotherapy and calls the treatment successful. Says later that tests show no reappearance of cancer cells.

- Feb. 21, 2012: Chavez says his doctors found a new lesion in the same place where the tumor was previously removed, and announces plans to return to Cuba for surgery.

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[Avatar4321]

He's dying?

No. He's dead.

While I have no desire to see people die. I can't say Im going to get too upset over this. He is in God's hands now and he will be accountable for what he has done.

 

[Mustang]

He's dying?

No. He's dead.

While I have no desire to see people die. I can't say Im going to get too upset over this. He is in God's hands now and he will be accountable for what he has done.

You mean like bringing clean water, food, health care, education, and hope to villagers who lived in squalor while American oil companies exploited the natural resource wealth of their nation?

 

[IlarMeilyr]

CHavez is dead.

Christina is in deep mourning!

 

[Mr. H.]

He's dying?

No. He's dead.

While I have no desire to see people die. I can't say Im going to get too upset over this. He is in God's hands now and he will be accountable for what he has done.

You mean like bringing clean water, food, health care, education, and hope to villagers who lived in squalor while American oil companies exploited the natural resource wealth of their nation?

The idiot nationalized their oil industry. It's called PDVSA.
Chavez was the exploiter of their natural resource wealth and they still live in squalor.

 

[Doubletap]

After receiving top notch cancer care in the People's Republic of Cuba, Hugo Chavez has died.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

Hugo Chavez: Poster Child for those who eat at Taco Bell at least 7 times a week.

 

[Dreadnaught1968]

He's dead, Jim!

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

does this mean that Sean Penn is the new President?

 

[Mustang]

After receiving top notch cancer care in the People's Republic of Cuba, Hugo Chavez has died.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the good ol' USA despite the fact that, according to conservatives, America has "the greatest healthcare system in the world."

List of countries by infant mortality rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[SinJinsg]

He's dying?

No. He's dead.

While I have no desire to see people die. I can't say Im going to get too upset over this. He is in God's hands now and he will be accountable for what he has done.

You mean like bringing clean water, food, health care, education, and hope to villagers who lived in squalor while American oil companies exploited the natural resource wealth of their nation?

Which, of course, never happened.

 

[Mr. H.]

After receiving top notch cancer care in the People's Republic of Cuba, Hugo Chavez has died.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the good ol' USA despite the fact that, according to conservatives, America has "the greatest healthcare system in the world."

List of countries by infant mortality rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Did you rethink your comment about American oil companies?

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Nothing to be happy too happy about. We still have our own Chavez right here in the USA.

 

[Avatar4321]

He's dying?

No. He's dead.

While I have no desire to see people die. I can't say Im going to get too upset over this. He is in God's hands now and he will be accountable for what he has done.

You mean like bringing clean water, food, health care, education, and hope to villagers who lived in squalor while American oil companies exploited the natural resource wealth of their nation?

No. I mean oppressing their civil liberties, silencing any opposition, and exploiting the people for the politicians expense.

 

[t_polkow]

He's dying?

No. He's dead.

While I have no desire to see people die. I can't say Im going to get too upset over this. He is in God's hands now and he will be accountable for what he has done.

You mean like bringing clean water, food, health care, education, and hope to villagers who lived in squalor while American oil companies exploited the natural resource wealth of their nation?

Hugo Chavez is one of leaders Washington most likes to paint as an enemy of America, but contrary to this logic, there are thousands in the US who have warm feelings for the flamboyant Venezuelan leader.

A winter’s morning in South Bronx, New York City. Outdoors the temperature is near freezing. Indoors, 77-year-old Alice Maiotis is bundled up, brewing a pot of coffee and raising the heat enough to take the chill out of the air. The retired grandmother of seven lives alone on a fixed income and each winter, as federal programs continue to be slashed, the struggle to afford warm comfort gets harder.

“I go around screaming and yelling,” the elderly lady says. “All they do is raise, raise, raise, raise and it is the same dollar you are getting, so how far can you push it? A hundred and fifty gallons of oil is right now about close to $600.”

However, Venezuela has been stepping in to make Alice’s life a bit easier by delivering 100 gallons of free heating oil each winter. She is a four-year beneficiary of the Citgo-Venezuela heating oil program, which provides free heating oil to 500,000 poor Americans living in low-income neighborhoods and shelters throughout the country.

President Hugo Chavez, often demonized by Washington, helped launch the program in 2005, following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Hugo Chavez: Warming Americans? hearts ? RT News

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Nothing to be happy too happy about. We still have our own Chavez right here in the USA.

Interesting that Chavez died on the same day as Stalin did 60 years ago. Guess they are meeting in hell as we speak. How awful for communists not to realize there is a day of reckoning and they are going to give an account for all the lies, evil dealings, murders, etc they do while on the earth. Only a fool would not fear G-d. Only a fool. - Jeremiah