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Venezuela's Chavez will run for re-election in 2012
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 30, 2011 09:36pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 03:35:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will seek another six-year term in an election next year despite recent surgery to remove a cancerous tumour, he told a state newspaper in an interview published late on Sunday.
News that the 56-year-old socialist leader underwent an operation last month in Havana to remove a baseball-sized tumour has called into question his long-term health and his fitness to continue governing the OPEC nation of 29 million people.
"I have medical reasons, scientific reasons, human reasons, reasons of love and political reasons to keep myself at the front of the government and the candidacy with more force than before," Chavez told the Correo del Orinoco newspaper.
"On a personal level, I tell you I have never thought for even an instant of retiring from the presidency." |
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