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Latin America

naaman fletcher

(7,362 posts) Fri Feb 15, 2013, 10:53 AM Feb 2013

Venezuela to publish photos of recuperating Chavez

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-venezuela-chavez-photos-idUSBRE91E0NU20130215

The Venezuelan government will publish photographs of Hugo Chavez on Friday, the information minister said, in what would be the first view of the president since he had cancer surgery in Cuba on December 11.

Information Minister Ernesto Villegas made the announcement on Twitter, adding that a communique on the 58-year-old socialist leader's condition would also be read shortly.

Chavez has not been seen in public since he went to Havana for the operation on December 11, his fourth surgery in 18 months for cancer that was first diagnosed in mid-2011.

On Wednesday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said the socialist leader was undergoing "complex" alternative treatments, but did not give details.