Posted on 02/21/2012 4:17:55 PM PST by mandaladon
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that he will undergo surgery to remove a lesion from the same area where doctors removed a cancerous tumor from his body last year.
Doctors in Cuba detected the lesion during a follow-up exam Saturday, Chavez said. He did not specify where the lesion was found but said it was roughly 2 centimeters in diameter.
"There will be a new operation to remove it and examine it to see if it is malignant or not," Chavez said, speaking on state television from a tractor factory in Venezuela's Barinas state.
The 57-year-old Venezuelan leader said there were no signs cancer had metastasized in his body.
"I am in good physical condition to face this battle," Chavez said.
The revelation came as speculation surged over the his health.
Rumors swirled on social media Monday after journalist Nelson Bocaranda, without naming sources, wrote that Chavez was in serious condition and doctors were treating him in Cuba.
The report drew ire from Venezuelan officials.
"Regarding the rumors, dirty war of swine," Information Minister Andres Izarra wrote in a Twitter post.
Diosdado Cabello, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, sharply criticized the journalist Monday.
"Bocaranda is sick in his soul, does he want the Commander to die, or is someone paying him to write his lies?" he posted on Twitter. On Tuesday, Chavez said he was speaking out a day earlier than he'd planned because of the increasing speculation.
"Since the rumors have been growing. ... I felt obligated to advance the information," he said.
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Aww. Too bad. Hope he dies.
you mean you don't want to have try to remove it before they know where it is?
Very sad news - I don’t know how I’m going to get through these next few days. Guess I’ll have to find a way. Start out with grabbing a spot of dinner and watching college basketball and see how that goes.
The one thing about cancer is that the bad ones like this never get totally taken out, hence the need for more surgery. He will certainly decline.
I’m guessing it’s in his brain.
God has a funny way of dealing with these evil dictators like Chavez, Casto, Sadaam Hussein....
Hugo smelled sulfur at the U.N. I think he’ll be smelling a lot of sulfur very soon.
Dead man walking. Aawwww!!!!
The one thing about cancer is that the bad ones like this never get totally taken out, hence the need for more surgery. He will certainly decline.
Sorry for the double post. I never do that.
I hope he dies a very painful death and accepts Christ during the process.
Hollywood is crying.
Let's see.... There was Gaddafi, Osama Bin Ladin, Kim Jong Ill,........
Just have Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinejad and Soros left to go.
I wouldn’t mind performing the operation. I have experience field dressing deer and other game animals.
The &rick will die knowing doctors in the USA probably could have saved or at least extended his worthless putrid life....but could not knowing how it would look
If the lesion’s on his butt, it’s probably just Sean Penn.
With luck this man will die sooner rather than later.
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