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The agony of Hugo Chavez: details emerge of his final days
Reuters ^ | Mar. 9, 2013 | Marianna Parraga

Posted on 03/09/2013 10:57:44 AM PST by libstripper

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez slid into a coma the day before he died of respiratory failure after cancer spread into his lungs, sources say.

Chavez's precise condition was one of the world's best-kept secrets since his cancer was announced in June 2011.

Since his death this week, however, details have emerged of the 58-year-old president's battle with cancer and the last moments in the hospital with close family and senior aides.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2011; 201106; 2013; 201303; cancer; chavez; communist; death; goodriddance; hugochavez; jimmycarter; smellslikesulphur; sulfur; sulphur; venezuela
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To: libstripper

No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.


21 posted on 03/09/2013 11:41:33 AM PST by Standing Wolf
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To: dennisw

More like loony toon third graders.


22 posted on 03/09/2013 11:42:44 AM PST by GunsareOK
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To: Graybeard58

Hugo was a cancer on the world.


23 posted on 03/09/2013 11:44:21 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: IrishBrigade

Of course it does. It’s the “in equal part” I’m not sure of.


24 posted on 03/09/2013 11:44:28 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Standing Wolf

They should all meet the end of the Mussolinis. The world is ready for a great cleansing.


25 posted on 03/09/2013 11:54:35 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Hardraade

Not sure why you say “cancer and evil people”. Cancer can attack anyone whether they are bad or relatively good (there really is no one that is good). The Lord doesn’t spare Christians from suffering on this earth.


26 posted on 03/09/2013 12:04:55 PM PST by plain talk
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To: tflabo; All
Mucho thanks. The most important part from the medical abstract you linked:

Surgery was done in 14 patients (negative microscopic margins-7, positive microscopic margins-3, and positive gross margins-3 and the margin of excision was not known in I patient). Five of 14 surgically treated patients had local recurrence and 6 of 19 patients developed metastases. Ten patients died of their disease at a median follow-up of 12 months. The estimated 2 and 5 year survival rates were 44 and 23%, respectively. Conclusions: Tumors in this location have a poor prognosis due to the lack of early diagnosis, large size at presentation, multiple attachments of the psoas muscle, and being relatively surgically inaccessible. (My emphasis.)

IOW, Hugo was in deep, brown smelly stuff from the moment he was diagnosed, needed the best available care, and chose to go with Obama/CastroCare instead, with the inevitable outcome.

27 posted on 03/09/2013 12:06:51 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Hardraade

Pretty broad paint brush here- my son was not an evil person. Another family member, my grandson, was not an evil person. Neither one were drinkers or smokers. Neither used drugs. It is not always the lifestyle that enters in.


28 posted on 03/09/2013 12:11:20 PM PST by handmade
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To: fhayek

soros is next I hope, a slow painful one


29 posted on 03/09/2013 12:11:40 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: WCH

Thank you. I’ve started wondering if certain posters here are worse in God’s eyes than he was. We’re instructed to pray for even our enemies, and, of course, those suffering.


30 posted on 03/09/2013 12:11:49 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Amen! He probably died an easier easier than some he had killed.


31 posted on 03/09/2013 12:14:48 PM PST by sport
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To: clintonh8r
My only wish is to have Sean Penn, Pelosi, Obama,Fienstien, Reid and ALL the rest of the democrats come down with the same cancer and for them to go to their socialist paradise in Cuba to get the “great” medical treatment there.
32 posted on 03/09/2013 12:21:57 PM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: plain talk

Some of the finest people I ever knew died of cancer, including my mother. Not an evil bone in her body.

IMO everyone has cancer, and something starts it to spread.


33 posted on 03/09/2013 12:32:14 PM PST by Venturer
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To: libstripper

Isn’t the passing of a tyrant an example of God’s mercy toward men?


34 posted on 03/09/2013 12:36:22 PM PST by lurk
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To: Chode

Did Hugo hear the cries and sobbing of relatives of the many people he killed during his rein, as he lay dying? Did Hugo hear the cries for justice from the many people he caused to suffer and die during his reign?

I read that the last thing Chavez said before his death, and apparently he mouthed the words because he could not speak, was, “please don’t let me die.”

In the end, these evil POS are afraid to die, because they know what awaits them. May they suffer and burn in hell for all the evil they caused.


35 posted on 03/09/2013 12:43:42 PM PST by itssme
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To: clintonh8r
Hard to believe that the wonderful Cuban health care didn’t cure his sorry ass.....

Hey! at least it was free. What more could he want?

36 posted on 03/09/2013 12:45:54 PM PST by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: handmade

Not a paintbrush at all.

More like, I think evil can draw bad things on to you. Not that bad things don’t happen to good people.


37 posted on 03/09/2013 12:47:35 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: steve86

You’re welcome. It’s easy to do when you place yourself in their shoes.


38 posted on 03/09/2013 12:48:11 PM PST by WCH
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To: itssme
100%
39 posted on 03/09/2013 12:52:15 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: handmade; Hardraade; IrishBrigade

I cannot cite a reference but I read a long time ago that cancer was thought to be a shameful disease and afflicted “bad people”, if someone in your family had it, you kept it quiet. Like syphilis or AIDS.

I really thought that people were much more enlightened nowadays. We’d be hard pressed to find anyone on this forum whose lives have not been touched by this disease in some way. A relative or other loved one, it touches everybody, good and bad, indiscriminately.


40 posted on 03/09/2013 1:00:00 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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