Hugo Chavez Cancer Treatment: New Surgery For Venezuelan President

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez says doctors in Cuba have found a new lesion in the area where a cancer was detected last year.

He tells state television on Tuesday that he will face a new operation.

Chavez describes the newly discovered lesion as small.

Comments

[piperson]

09:59 PM on 02/22/2012

May God's healing and blessings be upon Sr. Chavez. My prayers are with him.

[WOODSTOCKER60]

01:30 PM on 02/22/2012

THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR ALL THOSE REPUBLICAN "CANIDATES'....THEY NOW HAVE A COUNTRY...WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE CHRISTIAN -DEATH-GOD...WOULD GET TO RUN A COUNTRY..THEY WOULD LIFE AND DIE FOR!..

TOTAL CONTROL...TOTAL HATE..TOTAL EVERYTING!...
NEWT FOR SEC OF STATE...RUMMY FOR PREZ....RICK FOR SEC OF RELIGION...CAIN FOR SEC OF CHEESE..PERRY SEC OF ??????..............HHMMMM...........AND......PALIN FOR SEC OF STUPIDITY...


{I CAN HEAR THE SUCKING SOUND AS THEY ALL LEAVE THE U.S. NOW!}....

[yatahayaz]

12:03 PM on 02/22/2012

With any luck the surgeon's scalpel will slip...

[greysells2]

08:01 AM on 02/22/2012

I am a cancer survivor and the reappearence of a new lesion in Chavez is not a good sign for his family and his health. Usually this suggests, the cancer has metasticized. I am not a fan at all of Chavez's politics but I would not wish cancer on anyone. A health crisis is not a reason to wish ill upon anyone. Some folks on this blog need to relax a little with the personal attack stuff. There is Karma, and any nasty comments about Chavez's suffering might invite Karma upon yourself or a loved one.

[94613]

07:24 AM on 02/22/2012

The Man who won the Title forWorld's #1 Inflation at 27--31% and summarily tanked the Economy of The Bolivarian Republika deserves sympathy ? Bernardo O'Higgins and his Red Shirt Carnival Flotilla say to Hugo, sail on into the Sunset and let my People Go.

[piul05]

12:23 PM on 02/22/2012

Yep, the 99.9% inflation rate in 1996 was WAY better....

Venezuela's inflation has many causes; higher public spending in health and education (horror, horror, I hear some say, only MICs should receive any money), imports (mainly agricultural products - they import 2/3 of their food needs and, as demand has increased with the social programs, so has the bill) and a inflationary culture where prices are immediately bumped up whenever it's perceived that there's more money around. This is not unique to Venezuela; other countries in LA such as Brazil suffer from the same "knee-jerk" reaction and keeping inflation under wraps is a difficult juggling act.

On top of that, they haven't been immune to these four years of international recession.

[OliverTwist]

06:56 AM on 02/22/2012

The abundance of hateful comments here is revealing of American values and HP standards.

[Gingerland]

09:05 AM on 02/22/2012

I won't comment on whether or not internet message sites reflect American values, but as for HP standards I think you are being unfair...I thought the article on the woman who only ate pizzas for the last few decades was first rate journalism, a story that needed to be told.

[sharooni]

09:52 AM on 02/22/2012

faved on the assumption that your tongue was firmly in your cheek, and not fondling some pepperoni from a slice ...

[Lohikaarme]

06:16 AM on 02/22/2012

Hugo managed to change the constitution so the president can be elected and elected forever. He thought it would be him. It might be an irony that someone else will benefit from than change.

[yatahayaz]

12:04 PM on 02/22/2012

What was stunning was when the Venezuelans passed an enabling act that allowed Chavez to run forever. I thought the last nation to take such an action was Germany in 1933!

[chavista4]

12:41 PM on 02/22/2012

Not true! The citizens turned down his "new" constitution that would have allowed a third term with a vote of over 90% against. (My numbers come from the people who delivered the results to Chavez, not the lies that he demanded to be announced.) Chavez, as the dictator that he is, then passed all of the items in the constitution that were voted down by the citizens, by executive decree, violating the wishes of the citizens.

[SamKnause]

04:26 AM on 02/22/2012

This news saddens me.

I wish President Chavez a painless and speedy recovery.

[emillio11]

05:31 AM on 02/22/2012

I wish him the opposite.

[GSR]

02:57 AM on 02/22/2012

Nothing minor I hope.

[jessdog]

03:26 AM on 02/22/2012

Hopefully your words don't come back and haunt you or one of your kids or maybe your mother

[GSR]

05:41 AM on 02/22/2012

Unless you know something about my kids that I don't, it's unlkely they will become megalomaniacal autocrats.

[Verriderrti]

10:00 PM on 02/21/2012

Tick tock.....

[coyotefever105]

09:36 PM on 02/21/2012

Hugo Chavez may be an enemy but, nevertheless, I don't wish him ill. Wishing him ill would only make us lower than our enemies.

[Flying Sparkz1]

11:14 PM on 02/21/2012

He's not our enemy.

[coyotefever105]

11:54 PM on 02/21/2012

He sure likes to boast himself as an enemy of the United States.

[uk progressive]

10:21 AM on 02/22/2012

He is when he's got brown skin and huge oil reserve's.

[SteveSFM]

09:39 PM on 02/21/2012

Uncool.

[canaimafl]

01:30 AM on 02/22/2012

Do you think it's cool that in Venezuela the crime is so high that about 200.000 people have lost their lifes during almost 13 years Chavez has been controling the country? An average of 14.000 / 17.000 yearly... "official figures" Do you think it's cool that Chavez has been pomoting crime, violence and the confiscation of private property to gain the poor people's support instead of helping them using all the million dollars coming from oil exports... That mess and revolution has been financed with American dollars, why Chavez does not cut the oil supply to the USA? He does not like us but he loves our dollars... He is one the worst presidents in the history of the contemporary world, he just hates his own people .

[jessdog]

12:13 AM on 02/22/2012

Next time one of your loved ones is in a similiar situation think about your comment

[azmikede]

12:18 AM on 02/22/2012

Sorry Jess....I have no loved ones who are Dictators.......I stand behind all my comments and make No Apologies !

[rysagr]

08:57 PM on 02/21/2012

this guy needs to hit room temp soon

[jessdog]

03:30 AM on 02/22/2012

If one of your kids, mother, father or loved one ever hits room temperature think about what posted on the HP.

[Rich Cash]

08:56 PM on 02/21/2012

Incompetent Cubans missed part of the lesion the first time, so the solution is to let 'em take another whack at it? rofl...

[greysells2]

07:51 AM on 02/22/2012

Look, cancer is a tough illness to treat. There is no evidence that Chavez's treatment was incompetent. I suggest you read "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Available on line for any of us who have had cancer or who have lost loved ones to it. Or take a walk in your local cancer center.

[Rich Cash]

09:21 PM on 02/24/2012

My father survived colon cancer, my wife survived breast cancer, and my sister-in-law died of it. My criticism was directed at the quality of Cuban health care. Get off your high horse.

[SusanElizabeth1949]

12:36 PM on 02/22/2012

My guess is that his cancer had already gone metastatic microscopically before his first treatment. I've seen this in people I knew, and it does not bode well for him.

[Rich Cash]

09:24 PM on 02/24/2012

No doubt...

[darubo27usa]

08:45 PM on 02/21/2012

You mean we failed the first time? well, we'll take him out for sure the 2nd time around....