Month: March 2012

CARACAS (Reuters) – the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, will start on Sunday the first round of sessions of radiotherapy in Havana by cancer who suffer, a treatment that could weaken it in the hard-fought race towards the elections of October. Chavez’s trip comes two days before Pope Benedict XVI arrives to the island from Mexico, preceded by his statements that communism doesn’t work in Cuba and that the Catholic Church is prepared to help advance new models without “trauma”. “ask the God of armies, the God of us soldiers, to the Virgen del Valle to the Virgen del Carmen, (…) everything goes well, I’ll start the phase of radiotherapy in the coming hours”, said the President in a mystical tone before flying to the Caribbean country. Chavez said he will return to his country “in the coming days” and announced that it will be “going and coming” of Cuba during the five weeks that will survive the radiation therapy, a treatment whose side effects could limit their participation in the daily life of Venezuelan politics before that looms as the tougher campaign since to power in 1999. “Beyond that detected me the cancer, it was beyond they operated me emergency the first time and the second and then the third.” “We considered and I have taken the (…) decision to follow the treatment (in Cuba) and come back...

Havana, 25 mar (EFE).-the President of Cuba, Raúl Castro, received past midnight at the Havana airport to his counterpart and ally Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, who has returned to the island to start radiotherapy cancer treatment. According to Cuban media reported today (all official), Chávez was seen descending “lively” of the aircraft in which traveled from Venezuela and at the Havana airport “received the warm hug of welcome” Castro. Thus, the Venezuelan leader is again in Cuba, now to begin treatment of radiotherapy which was prescribed after surgery a month ago in Havana of a tumor, recurrence of the cancer that was also spoken on the island in June of 2011. In addition, Chavez has returned to Havana the eve of the visit to the island of Pope Benedict XVI, who after passing through Mexico, will arrive tomorrow, Monday, in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. The return of Chavez to Cuba comes barely a week after returning to Venezuela after spending 21 days in Havana, recovering from an operation in which its removed a tumor of two centimeters that turned out to be cancerous and which only reported that he was in the pelvic area. , Hugo Chávez was operated on 10 June last year of a pelvic abscess in Havana at the end of a tour by Brazil, Ecuador and Cuba, and later he detected cancer in...