Chavez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy

Reuters ^ | March 24, 2012 | Daniel Wallis

[Free ThinkerNY]

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will fly back 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 making a triumphant return 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 start radiation therapy soon.

But until Saturday he had not revealed whether he would go 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.

[Mmogamer]

It is un-Christian to say something bad about someone so I will keep silent.

[lowbridge]

How bad is the health care system in Venezuela that its leader has to go to Cuba to obtain radiation treatments?

[BallyBill]

I hope his last words are “#@!%’n CastroCare”.

[Jonty30]

He’s been going to Cuba a lot for these treatments.

It sounds like to me that he doesn’t have long in the world.

Not that I’m disappointed or anything.

[rovenstinez]

Maybe he goes to Cuba because it is free?

[Jonty30]

And high quality. :)

[dfwgator]

Maybe he goes to Cuba because it is free?

And it's worth every penny.

[CrazyIvan]

He needs to have a lot of lead implanted in his body to
shield him from the radiation.

[MasterGunner01]

Ah, Hugo, old buddy — are you smelling the sulfur yet? Your time is up, sweetie. Enjoy.

[JPG]

Very soon, Hugo will be scratching green bananas off his shopping list.

[NCDave]

When he goes...what are the odds it turns into “Decade at Bernies’”????? “Look, there`s Hugo and friends, He looks great!”

[tet68]

It’s too bad we couldn’t Irradiate him on his way
to cuber. Kinda help him along.

[Olog-hai]

You mean like he’s been blaming on the USA the whole time . . . ? Don’t forget our “earthquake machine” that he claims was “tested” on Haiti . . .

[TFMcGuire]

It, to me, is looking increasingly likely that the sweet Savior is going to allow us to see the demise of this unspeakably evil man. We have a few pooliticians in America who i hope to eulogize, sic., as well.

[tflabo]

How bad is the health care system in Venezuela that its leader has to go to Cuba to obtain radiation treatments?

It's really the sulphurous smoke radiating off the Havana cigars while commandante El Fidel puffs them that kills off those radical Imperialist right wing cancerous cells invading the pure leftist body of Hugo.

[MtnClimber]

It seems they could transplant some parts from Mikey Moore to keep him alive an extra few seconds.

[Bedford Forrest]

How sad. The First Poofter is really going to miss his little maricon.

[depressed in 06]

Hugo is going to Cuba to get last rites from the Pope, just in case, the One can’t make it off the golf course.

[FastCoyote]

I think this is the stage in his radiation cure where they microwave his nuts off.