When the term "battling for his life" is used, I am guessing the end is near.
(Reuters)
– Senior aides and relatives of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez countered on
Friday a crescendo of rumors that the socialist president may be dead
from cancer, saying he was still battling for his life.
“There he is, continuing his fight, his battle, and we are sure of
victory!” his older brother Adan Chavez, the governor of Barinas state,
told cheering supporters.
Speculation about Chavez, 58, hit fever pitch this week, fed in part
by assertions from Panama’s former ambassador to the Organization of
American States (OAS), Guillermo Cochez, that the Venezuelan leader had
died.
“The launching of absurd and bizarre rumors by the right wing simply
discredits them and isolates them further from the people,” Chavez’s
son-in-law Jorge Arreaza, who is also the country’s science minister,
said on Twitter.
Apart from one set of photos showing Chavez lying in a hospital bed,
he has not been seen nor heard from in public since December 11 cancer
surgery in Cuba, his fourth such operation.
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