U.S. is giving South American leaders cancer, says Hugo Chavez

The U.S. government could be responsible for a recent spate of cancer among South American leaders, according to Venezuela’s outspoken president Hugo Chavez.

He suggested that the U.S. might have ‘invented technology to spread cancer’, and warned other left-wing heads of state that they could be targeted next.

Mr Chavez, one of several Latin American leaders to have contracted the disease in the last year, said he had developed his theories after Fidel Castro described the CIA’s repeated attempts to assassinate him.