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Related: About this forumChavez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy
Source: Reuters
Chavez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy
CARACAS | Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:26pm EDT
(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will return to Cuba to begin radiation treatment for cancer on Sunday, but said he was in good shape and would be back home in several days.
Since returning to Caracas from Havana a week ago after a third operation in less than a year to remove a malignant tumor from his pelvis, the 57-year-old socialist leader had been saying he would begin radiation therapy soon.
But until Saturday the president had not revealed whether he would fly back to Cuba or stay in Venezuela for the treatment, which is expected to leave him weaker during his campaign to win a new six-year term at a presidential election on October 7.
"Tonight I leave for Havana. I have decided, on the recommendation of my medical team and my political team, to begin the radiation treatment tomorrow," Chavez said during a televised cabinet meeting.
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CARACAS | Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:26pm EDT
(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will return to Cuba to begin radiation treatment for cancer on Sunday, but said he was in good shape and would be back home in several days.
Since returning to Caracas from Havana a week ago after a third operation in less than a year to remove a malignant tumor from his pelvis, the 57-year-old socialist leader had been saying he would begin radiation therapy soon.
But until Saturday the president had not revealed whether he would fly back to Cuba or stay in Venezuela for the treatment, which is expected to leave him weaker during his campaign to win a new six-year term at a presidential election on October 7.
"Tonight I leave for Havana. I have decided, on the recommendation of my medical team and my political team, to begin the radiation treatment tomorrow," Chavez said during a televised cabinet meeting.
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Chavez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2012
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joshcryer
(62,287 posts)1. Fuck.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Citizen Worker
(1,785 posts)2. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery President Chavez.
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)3. First thing's first: I'm Venezuelan...
And I'm not some capitalist fool either. I in fact wish the US could embrace socialism like many European countries have, especially how the Scandinavian nations did. Just so we have that cleared out about me.
If he continues to get treatment, it might actually mean it's terminal, and if it is, then GOOD F***ING RIDDANCE!!! Just one less c*nt of a dictator in the world.