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Venezuela's Chavez says cancer has returned [View all]

Source: CBC

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced that his cancer has returned and that he will undergo another surgery in Cuba.

Chavez, who won re-election on Oct. 7, also said for the first time that if his health were to worsen, his successor would be Vice-President Nicolas Maduro.

"We should guarantee the advance of the Bolivarian Revolution," Chavez said on television Saturday night, seated at the presidential palace with Maduro and other aides.

The president said that tests had shown a return of some cancerous cells and that he would return to Cuba on Sunday for the surgery, his third operation to remove cancerous tissue in about a year and a half.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/08/venezuela-hugo-chavez-cancer.html

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Venezuela's Chavez says cancer has returned [View all]	NYC Liberal	Dec 2012	OP
Best wishes, President Chavez.	Ken Burch	Dec 2012	#1
Works for me.......... NT	Ernesto	Dec 2012	#2
Wish he could try the Gerson diet starting immediately. What would he have to lose? nt	kelliekat44	Dec 2012	#44
Long Life and fuck capitalist fascists	fascisthunter	Dec 2012	#3
Yeah, but who gives a fuck what those assholes think?	Egalitarian Thug	Dec 2012	#5
they not only express an opinion	fascisthunter	Dec 2012	#6
So very right, they ARE "amoral sociopaths". Nothing but trash. n/t	Judi Lynn	Dec 2012	#12
Sooner or later, everyone comes to LV.	Egalitarian Thug	Dec 2012	#23
You only said what you felt.	hrmjustin	Dec 2012	#8
Hasta la victoria siempre. . .	allrevvedup	Dec 2012	#4
Sounds as if the prognosis is not good	Zorro	Dec 2012	#7
Chavez	SamKnause	Dec 2012	#9
If anything happens to Chavez, the U.S. has a moral obligation	Ken Burch	Dec 2012	#10
I hope there is enough power in the resistance of the masses in Venezuela now.	Judi Lynn	Dec 2012	#13
And how I wish that we were truly moral enough to fulfill that obligation. I fear for the poor and	jwirr	Dec 2012	#18
Sigh of course the Chavez fans are out in force here.	Mr.Turnip	Dec 2012	#11
You're in the wrong place if you're telling us Chavez fans don't have a place in a Democratic forum.	Judi Lynn	Dec 2012	#14
I was born in Venezuela	mecherosegarden	Dec 2012	#21
Don't let it bother you	Zorro	Dec 2012	#24
I have VZ friends who are living in PR now.	MADem	Dec 2012	#31
How unfortunate for you that second and third-hand anecdotes can't be verified.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#37
I believe them more than I believe some of the characterizations I see here.	MADem	Dec 2012	#38
The scarcity is clearly caused by powerful political opponents of Chavez;	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#39
Just as hardships in every country are caused by the "haves" usually trampling on the rights,	kelliekat44	Dec 2012	#42
And of course, management has nothing to do with it whatsoever...?	MADem	Dec 2012	#50
Right off the bat, you push misinformation, without giving it a second thought.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#52
It's not misinformation...unless you think those folks at PBS were lying nearly a decade ago...	MADem	Dec 2012	#61
Your article says Chavez helped rewrite the constitution.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#64
He rewrote it, with help. That's the bottom line. What went in it was what HE wanted in it.	MADem	Dec 2012	#65
You are the one who has the sequence wrong.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#68
No, I don't think I do. The whole process began with a vote of authorization.	MADem	Dec 2012	#72
Just a poor attempt to deny what is recorded here for all to see.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#84
No, that's not accurate.	MADem	Dec 2012	#85
Yes, it is accurate.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#86
The vote to start the process was the first vote on the matter.	MADem	Dec 2012	#87
And the vote that 'ended' the process, thus ratifying the new constitution,	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#88
You aren't reading what I wrote, if you think that.	MADem	Dec 2012	#89
None of those articles provide any real information.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#90
Yes, they do. They provide a LOT of information--information you, for reasons unclear to me, are	MADem	Dec 2012	#91
No, really, they're all very short,	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#92
VZ has a high crime rate and is corrupt.	MADem	Dec 2012	#93
It will be time for President Chavez to "get out of the way",	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#94
Well, that will happen when the sarcoma has its way with him.	MADem	Dec 2012	#95
You're right. It's unlikely he'll live much longer.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#96
We're no saints, but Chavez has had the deck and con for fourteen years.	MADem	Dec 2012	#97
Chavismo is responsible for the rise of the Boligarchs.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#63
Boligarchs--what a clever and expressive way of putting it. Sums it up perfectly.	MADem	Dec 2012	#66
The twenty years preceding the Bolivarian government	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#69
It was reversed? Doesn't look that way to me.	MADem	Dec 2012	#70
I posted links to detailed analysis of the Venezuelan economy.	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#71
Crime is rampant. Murder is common. When you're dead, your life is not "much improved."	MADem	Dec 2012	#73
Brazil and Chile were far more impressive than Venezuela.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#78
Poverty was reduced throughout all of Latin America.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#77
It's a term used by Venezuelans, even Chavez has used it, they have no problem admitting it.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#76
I love DU--I learn something new every day!	MADem	Dec 2012	#80
Video by Al Jazeera about the Boligarchs:	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#82
Fascinating...and disturbing. Thanks for that; it was very ... instructive!! nt	MADem	Dec 2012	#83
So you're telling us that people weren't put into trucks and beaten before Chavez came around.	devilgrrl	Dec 2012	#57
Two words. n/t	bitchkitty	Dec 2012	#16
Chavez fans are really fans of Venezuelan democracy;	ronnie624	Dec 2012	#17
Try reading "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein before you call us Chavez fans. We are instead	jwirr	Dec 2012	#19
Why support Chavez?	randomtagger	Dec 2012	#58
Not everyone here considers him a hero	leftynyc	Dec 2012	#59
I know, but..	randomtagger	Dec 2012	#62
You have no idea of what you're talking about.	bitchkitty	Dec 2012	#79
Hugo Chavez says he needs cancer surgery again, names VP successor if illness worsens	Judi Lynn	Dec 2012	#15
Glad to hear that he is trying to prepare them for the oppression from the corporations that is most	jwirr	Dec 2012	#20
Why is he rather than the constitution naming a successor? (nt)	Recursion	Dec 2012	#27
Take the time to read the article FIRST before attempting to insinuate he's out of line.. n/t	Judi Lynn	Dec 2012	#30
Hmmm, Vice-President? What is that?!	JackRiddler	Dec 2012	#35
Clearly a title only given in dictatorships...	Comrade_McKenzie	Dec 2012	#45
VP in Venezuela only takes power if the President dies in the last 2 years of office.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#55
He's naming a political successor, yeah, it's weird, but they needed to pick someone.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#54
If he dies soon there will be new elections...assuming rule of law is followed.	MADem	Dec 2012	#67
I only hope that his VP is a man who cannot be bought out by the corporatists.	kelliekat44	Dec 2012	#43
His VP is a raging homophobe as are a huge number of chavistas.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#56
Wasn't that VZ's Deepwater Horizon "BP moment?"	MADem	Dec 2012	#74
BP + Enron moment. Combined.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#75
Imagine what could be done with seven hundred million...a real shame. nt	MADem	Dec 2012	#81
Oh No!	Odin2005	Dec 2012	#22
Good thing he's going to Cuba for treatment.	Pterodactyl	Dec 2012	#25
Cancer is an awful thing to have	Fearless	Dec 2012	#26
Best wishes to him.	polly7	Dec 2012	#28
I don't think it ever left.	MADem	Dec 2012	#29
Hugo Chávez names successor after confirming need for cancer surgery	struggle4progress	Dec 2012	#32
Kick (nt)	muriel_volestrangler	Dec 2012	#33
The problems Venezuela has with poverty and crime...	Ash_F	Dec 2012	#34
I agree with you. nt	kelliekat44	Dec 2012	#60
Before More Cancer Surgery, Chávez Had Some Political Fences to Mend at Home	Judi Lynn	Dec 2012	#36
I have changed my mind on Chavez	Downtown Hound	Dec 2012	#40
Don't recall ever seeing you speaking up as one who supports the progress made already	Judi Lynn	Dec 2012	#41
who cares? He has since come around to seeing the light	Bacchus4.0	Dec 2012	#47
Don't really care if you ever recall me speaking positively of him	Downtown Hound	Dec 2012	#49
LOL - at least it's a new variation of the same theme!	bitchkitty	Dec 2012	#53
How true. You should have never suporeted him.	JackRiddler	Dec 2012	#48
I didn't have much of an opinion about him until I saw "The War on Democracy"	Comrade_McKenzie	Dec 2012	#46
OH crap	DonCoquixote	Dec 2012	#51