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Chavez Accuses America of Infecting Influential Leaders With Cancer ‘Its Strange & Sad’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.
It was a typically controversial statement by Venezuela’s socialist leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumor from his pelvis. But he stressed that he was not making any accusations, just thinking aloud.
“It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now … I don’t know. I’m just reflecting,” he said in a televised speech to troops at a military base.
“But this is very, very, very strange … it’s a bit difficult to explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities.”
Chavez, Fernandez, Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo, Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have all been diagnosed recently with cancer. All of them are leftists.
Doctors say Fernandez has a very good chance of recovery and will not need chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Her diagnosis was made public on Tuesday.
Chavez said other regional leaders should beware, including his close ally, Bolivian President Evo
Morales.
“We’ll have to take good care of Evo. Take care Evo!” he said.
The 57-year-old is Latin America’s loudest critic of U.S. foreign policy along with Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro, and he frequently lashes out at what he calls the “Yankee Empire”.
CASTRO’S WARNING
“Fidel always told me, ‘Chavez take care. These people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care what you eat, what they give you to eat … a little needle and they inject you with I don’t know what,’” he said.
In his comments on Wednesday, Chavez also slammed Washington and its European allies for criticizing Russia’s recent parliamentary elections – and said they were planning the same thing for Venezuela’s presidential election in October, when he will seek re-election.
“They are crying fraud and saying the elections need to be re-run … They’re trying to destabilize no less than Russia, a nuclear power. That’s the madness of the Empire,” Chavez said.
“I say this because here in Venezuela, the Imperial Yankee, the local bourgeoisie, and a good part of what they call the opposition parties here, are preparing a similar plan,” he said.
“I call on the armed forces to be alert, on the Venezuelan people to be alert. Because we are not going to let the Imperial Yankee destabilize Venezuela again like they did in the past.”
Details about Chavez’s health remain a closely guarded secret, although he now appears to be recovering and is making longer and longer televised appearances.
Earlier this month he made his first official foreign trip after his surgery, to a regional summit in Uruguay.
Since his return he has often appeared sporting something of a younger, new look: a dark sports coat over an open-necked maroon shirt, and is hair is growing back after chemotherapy.
It is far cry from the green fatigues and red beret that he became famous for wearing for much of his 13 years in power.
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on December 28, 2012. Filed under INTERNATIONAL NEWS.
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Ba medza
December 28, 2012 at 7:15 am
Good observation chave! Anything is posible with america no wonder we should be very careful with what we receive from these “boss countries” just take a look @ how the diseases like diabetes are spreading. Let’s be watchful on what we use; food,lotions,drinks,medicines etc. Long live Africa!!!
MOJO
December 28, 2012 at 7:48 am
mwayoya adada chiuta wamisungani umampa,KK get a life forget about that marriage thing filemisebanyafye.
village Chicken
December 28, 2012 at 7:49 am
@TUMFWEKO, this is in the past, not news. WAKE UP. Too many gonga stories….
special force
December 28, 2012 at 8:05 am
Abasungu anabo Ubuloshi mwa?
spider
December 28, 2012 at 9:47 am
illuminati..
kapuli wa ng'ongo
December 28, 2012 at 10:40 am
Where are the Red Indians of Canada and the US where are the Aborigines of Australia?
likaki nyau nyau
December 28, 2012 at 10:50 am
@kapuli…good questions….further questions:
1. Where is the red variety of kandolo gone?
2.Where have ‘utunkubyu’ small colorful tree mopani worms (vinkubala) gone to?
3.What happened to nshonkonono, where did army worms come from, how come seeds from ripe tomato cannot germinate, why are they insisting of second polio and measles immunizations and vaccinations when our children have already had these.
4.What are they putting in baby formula?
chansa wi batiina bwingi
December 28, 2012 at 10:53 am
@kapuli and @likaki….you two are back and so thought provoking! I had no idea about terminator seed varieties nor why WHO insited on second vaccinations! YOU COULD HAVE A POINT THERE……
Mpangula Mputyu
December 28, 2012 at 11:11 am
Africa too dependant on the western world. The west willalways try to control us to provide a market for their survival.
We should go back to the basics. we grow our own food.
period.
padre shikofu
December 28, 2012 at 11:28 am
Wooow…utunkubyu….I remember these in Chililabombwe. Yss a lot of species have disappeared as GMOs have set in. Is it true that one of the worlds GMO proponents Has opened offices in Zambia?
Yankee lover
December 28, 2012 at 11:47 am
what ****** ignorant comments.instead of learning from the most advanced nations you instead tolerate this backward communist dictators.
Yankee lover
December 28, 2012 at 11:54 am
what ****** ignorant comments.instead of learning from the most advanced nations you instead tolerate these backward communist dictators.
shushu
December 28, 2012 at 11:57 am
CHAVEZ WAS JUST THINKING ALOUD…IN ANY CASE AMERICA IS VERY ADVANCED IN TECHNOLOGY…WHILE WE ARE BUSY DRINKING AND ENJOYING CORRUPTION MONEY..AMERICANS ARE BUSY WITH A ROVER ON MARS DOING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH…LET US JUST ACCEPT THAT WE ARE BEHIND …OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IS FAKE..PEOPLE GET DEGREES SO THAT THEY DRIVE NICE CARS AND BOAST AROUND…IN AMERICA,JAPAN,ENGLAND PEOPLE GO TO SCHOOL SO THAT THEY CAN PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGING CHALLENGES..LOOK AT EDUCATED ZAMBIANS..JUST BEER EVERY DAY..CRY MOTHER ZAMBIA.
MWANYA BA AMERICA NOMBA NABAPANGA CANCER…
Abena PJ
December 28, 2012 at 4:25 pm
The way we live now is different from the way we lived long ago. The environment we have imported from the west is worsening the Greenhouse effect so we have acid rain and the depletion of the ozone layer which protects us from the sun’s ultraviolet rays. The air we breathe is polluted with industrial emissions, the water we dring poluted with industrial waste. We eat too many broiler chickens now than before when village chickens were the order of the day and these broiler chickens and vegetables we eat are full of chemicals. How can we not get cancers? Americans have not been spared from these cancers and other similar calamities. They also die in numbers from cancers and heart related complications. Just because five leftist presidents have cancers, they must blame it on their perceived enemy number one – America. My dad died of Cancer at the age of 64. Is America to blame? No guys kambankoni vinango chabe.
Mukundakufwa
December 28, 2012 at 4:35 pm
The mind boggles mwe. Is it true this Chavez said all this nonsense? Typical third world blame game. You ate too many HIV positive women Chavez that’s why. It aint got nothing to do with OBAMA. Own up!
GMO will kill us
December 28, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Abash Junky KFC! Where r they getting their chickens from?