CARACAS (Reuters) – the Chairman of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, wept Thursday during a mass for their health, hours after returning from Cuba where it is treated cancer suffering from and which has stoked doubts about his State of health for the elections of October.
Chavez, who begged Jesus to allow him to live, did not further details about his health after the provided upon arrival in the country.
“Now could not help a few tears”, said Chavez at the ceremony organized in his hometown Barinas, to the southwest of the country.
“Give me your Crown Jesus, give me your cross, your thorns I bleed, I don’t carry yet”, implored seconds before the end of transmission.
The President was accompanied by his parents and relatives in the Act that was intimate but televised throughout the country by the State channel VTV.
Socialist leader returned to Venezuela in the early hours of Thursday after receiving the second of five rounds of radiotherapy that said you will have to fight cancer. Chavez will continue to the next few weeks traveling between Caracas and Havana to continue with radiation, though not said when or by how much time will go.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry reported on Wednesday that Chavez intends to meet “soon” in Brazil President Dilma Rousseff and the former President José Ignacio Lula da Silva.
Details on his condition will still be known and rumors about his condition not amainan, with numerous journalists and experts publish unofficial information in social networks which questions Government information.
Chavez fight against cancer a few months before elections that will seek a new re-election.
While his opponent, Governor Henrique Capriles, toured the oil country looking for his 39 years to give an image of energy and youth to cope with the high popularity of the President in the polls.
Although Chávez is favourite to win a new six-year term, polls show that there are still many undecided and the evolution of the representative will be key in the electoral campaign.
The President him they removed a large tumor from the pelvic area in June of last year and he was involved again in February due to an injury of a smaller size in the same place. Between, Chávez went through several cycles of chemotherapy that week kept him away from the political arena.
(Report additional Enrique Andrés pretzel, edited by Javier Leira and Ricardo Figueroa)
