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I do not wish pain or death on anybody but it may be necessary to stop the crimes and human rights violations of Hugo Chavez.
The Venezuelan leader needs to use a wheelchair to get around, after the tumor spread to the bones of the hip.
Hugo Chavez's health is worsening. The Venezuelan president would have been forced in recent weeks to use a cane to walk and even to move in a wheelchair since suffering pains in the bones of the hip. So says the journalist Nelson Bocaranda, who regularly consults Brazilian and Venezuelan doctors in the group that serves the president.
In the absence of official information on the health of Chavez, "Runrunes" that Bocaranda publishes on its website and Twitter have become one of the most reliable sources to track disease progression of Venezuelan President.
Ten months ago, Chavez declared that he had cancer in the pelvis apparently healed. But last January 26 underwent surgery for the third time due to metastases that appeared in the liver, adrenal glands and bladder, as revealed to Dr. ABC Venezuelan José Rafael Marquina, who also receives data from the medical team that takes the case.
In the last two weeks Chavez has twice requested the National Assembly for leave of absence for more than five days to continue treatment at the clinic radiological CIMEQ of Havana, for a miracle to Christ and recognizing the severe impact that radiotherapy holds body.
In his last appearance before the Venezuelan people, on Monday April 30, before leaving for Cuba in his fifteenth trip, Chavez showed visibly deteriorated. In the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Miraflores, where he said it was the last session radiation and would soon return to Caracas had to hold with both hands to the podium to stand.
Negative developments
Bocaranda explains, "the latest tests done yesterday [on Wednesday] to show results returned nothing positive for the patient. First results of the medical matches was to recognize that it may continue to apply radiotherapy to the pelvis, fractured as previous radiation arm of the femur. That is the source of pain. "
Chavez admitted that he could not physically presented to Venezuelans from the morning of Friday April 27 because he was "resting" and not in a position to rally. His aggravation explains his unusual silence for five days.
Bocaranda adds: "From this week will begin receiving psychological therapy to deal with any fatality, if not the miracle that requested public last Monday. A President declined physically was not shown on TV leaving the country because it had to be assisted up or down the stairs of the plane. "
"Worrying"
For his part, Dr. Marquina has submitted the "Runrunes" of his followers Bocaranda. The last thing you said in your twitter account is: "All the information I have provided is accurate and many of the situations we are seeing now warned before."
Marquina also notes that: "What is a bit worrying is the number of radiotherapy sessions showing how aggressive and advanced cancer." In his interview with ABC had already stated that Cuban doctors had committed several errors, including the of supplying steroids or stimulants to Chavez, as well as wrong with the radiation, burning the patient's vital areas.
Obama has chosen Hugo Chavez over Canada
Blocking the Keystone XL pipeline isn't going to stop a single American car trip. It will simply ensure that car is fueled by Hugo Chavez and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who must have been popping the champagne while laughing at Obama on TV.
...the line from Canada itself could add about 800,000 barrels of oil a day to the U.S. economy.
That oil won't make Americans drive any more. It would only replace current U.S. imports from Venezuela — the Keystone XL would go all the way down to the very same Texas refineries where Hugo Chavez sends his oil, coincidentally 800,000 barrels a day. So it's a pretty straight swap of Canadian ethical oil for Venezuelan conflict oil. And Obama chose Hugo Chavez over us.
Contrary to statements by Venezuelan caudillo Hugo Chávez, a cancerous tumor discovered in his colon late last month has not been removed, according to my sources. Heeding the self-serving advice of Cuban doctors, Chávez has rejected surgery so that he can return to his public duties as soon as possible and bolster his regime's ongoing succession strategy. The Castro brothers need him back on the political stage in Venezuela, not in a hospital bed. Meanwhile, back in Caracas, corrupt military leaders are consolidating their power and plotting their political survival as if Chávez were already dead.
Non-Cuban medical specialists insist that the larger-than-expected tumor must be removed before resuming last-ditch chemotherapy and radiation. They believe that Chávez's decision to refuse surgery will hasten his death. Members of Chávez's family and some close friends are furious that the Cubans are manipulating his megalomania to convince him that sustaining his 'revolution' is more important than extending his life.
Members of Chávez's family and some close friends are furious that the Cubans are manipulating his megalomania to convince him that sustaining his 'revolution' is more important than extending his life.
Havana's ruthless leaders are obsessed with trying to manage the transition in Caracas in order to ensure continued oil and aid for Cuba's comatose economy. There is bad blood between the Castro brothers and the military vanguard that has been taking charge since January. New National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello knows that Fidel Castro convinced Chávez to marginalize him years ago. And the new minister of defense, General Henry Rangel Silva, is convinced that Castro will betray him and other narco-military officers in order to inoculate the regime against U.S. scrutiny. Indeed, the Castro regime is appalled that these hyper-corrupt military leaders would emerge as the face of Chavismo, preferring a civilian formula that will placate the international community and answer to Havana.
Cubans preparing for Chavez death
Raúl Castro, a farsighted and methodical fellow, is already making contingency plans. To the dictatorship, the 110,000 barrels of oil that Venezuela contributes daily are essential. That remarkable amount of crude can be replaced by the extractions that Repsol plans to make in Cuban waters but, according to the Spanish company's calculations, there's only a 17 percent probability of finding that oil, and the pocket of fuel may be just a fourth of what Havana estimates.
In any case, even if found, that oil will take about two years to arrive at the Cuban power plants to generate electricity — its main purpose — and at the international markets to acquire dollars. A commission assigned to manage those hypothetical funds has already been created. Therefore, Raúl needs to prolong for at least two years the milking of the generous Venezuelan cow.
How does he plan to do it?
First, by becoming a part — very carefully though barely visible — of the mechanism of transmission of authority that will choose Chávez's successor.
Second, by discreetly approaching Henrique Capriles, the popular candidate of the democratic opposition, who has a very high probability of winning the Oct. 7 elections.
According to the analysis of 'the Cubans' (as Castro's puppeteers are called) anyone who runs against Capriles will lose. He won't even have the opportunity to cheat without provoking a military coup from the right, which would be catastrophic for Havana.
So, the most convenient formula for Cuba is to peacefully dissolve the unnatural marriage between the two countries, but allowing the two-year period that Raúl Castro thinks he needs so the island's economy won't experience the same contraction it suffered after the end of the Soviet subsidy. At that time, the misery of Cubans worsened with a 50-percent plunge in consumption, leading to thousands of cases of malnutrition that caused blindness among many people (none of them members of the ruling class, of course).
Will Raúl's maneuvers succeed? I don't believe so. Generally, those plans never work. Things develop otherwise because they're subject to imponderable factors, unforeseeable decisions and events.
Who would have thought that the end of the Chávez era would begin so unexpectedly?
That's the strange beauty of history.
