• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 06 / 27 / 2011

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By Charlie Devereux - Jun 26, 2011 3:58 PM GMT-0400. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez doesn’t have cancer and will return home in time to attend celebrations marking 200 years of Venezuelan independence on July 5, National Assembly President Fernando Soto Rojas said.

If he was receiving treatment for cancer in Cuba, “I would be the first to tell the country,” Soto Rojas said, according to a National Assembly statement. “Chavez is recovering and will be here for July 5, thank God.”

Since Chavez, 56, underwent surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess on June 10, a lack of official information has raised questions about the true state of his health and triggered debates about whether he should be running South America’s largest oil producer from Cuba.

Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras said yesterday that the Miami Herald is a “cancer” of the right wing media after its Spanish-language sister paper El Nuevo Herald cited unidentified U.S. intelligence sources as saying that Chavez is in a critical state of health.

“President Chavez recovers well from surgery,” Porras wrote on his Twitter account. “May our friends stop stressing and our foes stop dreaming...”

Chavez’s mother, Elena Frias de Chavez, said she was praying to God he would be cured soon.

“Greetings and blessings to my dear son,” she said in comments carried on state television. “Let the holy power cure him quickly and bring him to me.”

Chavez yesterday posted several messages on his Twitter account, praising his ministers and announcing that his daughter Rosines and three grandsons had arrived in Cuba to be by his bedside.

Source:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-26/