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Chavez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy
Reuters ^ | March 24, 2012 | Daniel Wallis

Posted on 03/24/2012 6:52:50 PM PDT by 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.

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To: Free ThinkerNY

A lawn chair in Teheran might get the job done in a single treatment.


21 posted on 03/24/2012 10:58:23 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: NCDave

He’s STILL dead.


22 posted on 03/24/2012 11:51:04 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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