Hugo Chavez's condition improving
CARACAS cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lung infection is controlled and his medical condition is improving more than a month after his last surgery in Cuba, the government said on Sunday.
"Despite his delicate state ... in recent days the general medical evolution has been favorable," said the latest official update health, relatively positive compared to others, but still reflected the seriousness of the situation of Chavez .
"The respiratory infection is under control, although the commander-president still requires specific measures to resolve breathing insufficiency ... he is conscious."
The communique, which no longer gave details about his condition, came as the three most powerful government figures after Chávez met in Havana to check on him and Cuban allies to meet.
Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, the Congress chief Diosdado Cabello, and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez are shuttling to and from Cuba since the fourth and most serious of the 58-year-old socialist president cancer surgery a month ago.
Chavez, who missed his inauguration for a further six years last week, has not been seen or heard in public since the surgery. Many Venezuelans are accepting his momentous 14-year reign of the South American OPEC country could be nearing an end.
"We are all Chavez!" and "Chavez will return!" were chanted slogans and called numerous solidarity rallies, meetings and concerts in Venezuela over the weekend, which attracted thousands of passionate supporters and anxious.
'Fighting for Life'
Venezuelan state television Sunday even split the screen into four events around the nation to see.
"The situation is complex and delicate," Elias Jaua, a former vice president and ally of Chavez, told a rally.
"He continues to fight for his life."
Villegas said Maduro, who Chavez has appointed his successor, informed his boss of the outpouring home.
State media said Maduro, Cabello, Ramirez - who is also the head of the powerful state oil company PDVSA - and Attorney General Cilia Flores all met Cuban President Raul Castro at the weekend. But there were no details of the talks.
OPPOSITION NATIONAL complains 'paralysis'
That would lead to the appointment of a caretaker president, and an election within a month. But Venezuela's Supreme Court has confirmed that President Chavez continues with Maduro in costs, such as No. 2 to Chavez's health situation is clarified.
"It's been a year-and-a-half of contradictions and announcements are fully cured, followed by relapse," Borges added, saying problems like inflation, housing shortages and power cuts were neglected during a political impasse.
Because the disease was discovered in the mid-2011, Chavez has wrongly declared himself twice heal at an extraordinary and disturbing saga of Venezuela's 29 million people.
The stakes are high for the rest of the region as well. Cuba and a handful of other leftist-ruled countries for years dependent on the help of Chavez to vulnerable economies.
Should Chavez die or become incapacitated, then the most likely next step an election pitting Maduro, 50, against Henrique Capriles, 40, the main opposition leader, who lost to Chavez in October 1st presidential election.
In an opinion column on Sunday, Capriles railed against the "national paralysis", but said that the opposition would not be drawn into confrontation or street protests. That tactic backfired spectacularly for them a decade ago, when Chavez was briefly overthrown, but came back stronger than before.
CARACAS cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lung infection is controlled and his medical condition is improving more than a month after his last surgery in Cuba, the government said on Sunday.
"Despite his delicate state ... in recent days the general medical evolution has been favorable," said the latest official update health, relatively positive compared to others, but still reflected the seriousness of the situation of Chavez .
"The respiratory infection is under control, although the commander-president still requires specific measures to resolve breathing insufficiency ... he is conscious."
The communique, which no longer gave details about his condition, came as the three most powerful government figures after Chávez met in Havana to check on him and Cuban allies to meet.
Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, the Congress chief Diosdado Cabello, and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez are shuttling to and from Cuba since the fourth and most serious of the 58-year-old socialist president cancer surgery a month ago.
Chavez, who missed his inauguration for a further six years last week, has not been seen or heard in public since the surgery. Many Venezuelans are accepting his momentous 14-year reign of the South American OPEC country could be nearing an end.
"We are all Chavez!" and "Chavez will return!" were chanted slogans and called numerous solidarity rallies, meetings and concerts in Venezuela over the weekend, which attracted thousands of passionate supporters and anxious.
'Fighting for Life'
Venezuelan state television Sunday even split the screen into four events around the nation to see.
"The situation is complex and delicate," Elias Jaua, a former vice president and ally of Chavez, told a rally.
"He continues to fight for his life."
Villegas said Maduro, who Chavez has appointed his successor, informed his boss of the outpouring home.
State media said Maduro, Cabello, Ramirez - who is also the head of the powerful state oil company PDVSA - and Attorney General Cilia Flores all met Cuban President Raul Castro at the weekend. But there were no details of the talks.
OPPOSITION NATIONAL complains 'paralysis'
That would lead to the appointment of a caretaker president, and an election within a month. But Venezuela's Supreme Court has confirmed that President Chavez continues with Maduro in costs, such as No. 2 to Chavez's health situation is clarified.
"It's been a year-and-a-half of contradictions and announcements are fully cured, followed by relapse," Borges added, saying problems like inflation, housing shortages and power cuts were neglected during a political impasse.
Because the disease was discovered in the mid-2011, Chavez has wrongly declared himself twice heal at an extraordinary and disturbing saga of Venezuela's 29 million people.
The stakes are high for the rest of the region as well. Cuba and a handful of other leftist-ruled countries for years dependent on the help of Chavez to vulnerable economies.
Should Chavez die or become incapacitated, then the most likely next step an election pitting Maduro, 50, against Henrique Capriles, 40, the main opposition leader, who lost to Chavez in October 1st presidential election.
In an opinion column on Sunday, Capriles railed against the "national paralysis", but said that the opposition would not be drawn into confrontation or street protests. That tactic backfired spectacularly for them a decade ago, when Chavez was briefly overthrown, but came back stronger than before.
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