Venezuelan President undergoes ‘successful’ cancer surgery

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez successfully underwent surgery to remove cancerous tissue in Cuba according his Vice President Nicolas Maduro. This is Chavez’s fourth cancer-related surgery since June 2011. Over the weekend Chavez, in a televised speech, acknowledged the seriousness of the situation even acknowledging Maduro as his preferred successor. Maduro, who called the operation a “complete success” says that after the six-hour operation, “we lived through complex moments of tension.”


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