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Venezuela’s vice president has said that Hugo Chavez is in good spirits as he undergoes chemotherapy in Caracas. Should Chavez prove too sick to return to power, the country would need to hold an election within 30 days.
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Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said late on Friday that President Hugo Chavez had begun chemotherapy following his fourth round of cancer surgery in December, and decided to continue the treatment when he returned home from Cuba on February 18.
"He has strength that is superior to the treatments that he is receiving and he is in good spirits, battling, receiving his treatments," Maduro told reporters after a mass for Chavez in a new chapel on the hospital grounds named "hope." Maduro rejected claims from some news outlets that the president was at death's door.
Chavez's three-month absence from public life had fueled rumors about his condition, and only a set of photos of the president reading a Cuban newspaper with his daughters in that span had been released before announced his return to Venezuela on Twitter nearly two weeks ago. Doctors diagnosed him with cancer in the pelvic region in June 2011.
‘General improvement'
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