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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 10:10 AM Mar 2012

Venezuela's Chavez: I'm recovering like a condor

Source: Reuters

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez broke his silence on Wednesday after surgery in Cuba for a suspected recurrence of cancer to insist he was recovering well and "soaring like the condor".

"I send you all my supreme love. We will live and we will recover!" the 57-year-old socialist leader enthused via Twitter from Havana where he was operated on earlier in the week.

"Here I go, soaring like the condor."

Despite an upbeat official assessment of the latest procedure in Cuba, some sources including a prominent pro-opposition Venezuelan journalist suggested Chavez may face a life-threatening spread of the disease discovered last year.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/ignore-rumours-venezuela-says-chavez-cancer-saga-025126496.html

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Venezuela's Chavez: I'm recovering like a condor (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2012 OP
Sounds like some good meds they got him on. Bruce Wayne Mar 2012 #1
let the condor soar! Enrique Mar 2012 #2

Bruce Wayne

(692 posts)
1. Sounds like some good meds they got him on.
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 10:19 AM
Mar 2012

I don't approve of medicine. People should recuperate by meditating and exercising and obsessing about traumas from their childhood.

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