LatinNews Daily Report - 05 April 2012

Venezuela | Chávez, the commuter.  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez returned to Caracas from Havana, Cuba, on 4 April and insisted that the latest round of radiotherapy for his cancer went off without a hitch. “I am welded to life”, he declared. However the journalist Nelson Bocaranda, who has provided the inside track on the president’s illness in the absence of any official government information, suggested yesterday that there are ongoing disagreements between the Cuban, Venezuelan and Brazilian medics treating the president. Bocaranda also notes that the president’s family and his close advisors will soon have to oblige Chávez to take a decision about the forthcoming election campaign, given that the radiotherapy will render him too weak to actively campaign in public.

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