CARACAS – Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez said yesterday he would have to undergo another operation after doctors in Cuba found a lesion in his pelvis where surgeons removed a large cancerous tumour last year.
The 57-year-old socialist leader said he had travelled to Havana for the tests on Saturday. Rumours of the unannounced trip had prompted a flood of speculation among the opposition and supporters that he was at death’s door.
“There is no metastasis. Just this small lesion in the same place where they removed the tumour,” he said during a televised tour of a factory in his home state of Barinas. – (Reuters)