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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 Chavezs condition. We want to know what is going with Chavezs 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 wont 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 inaugurations 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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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 Chavezs health
Tue, Mar 05, 2013 - DIVIDED: Pro-Chavez supporters held another rally, while Venezuelas 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 Chavezs condition. We want to know what is going with Chavezs 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 wont 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 inaugurations 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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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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- 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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He's dying?
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.
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?
After receiving top notch cancer care in the People's Republic of Cuba, Hugo Chavez has died.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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?
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
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?
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?
Nothing to be happy too happy about. We still have our own Chavez right here in the USA.