Chavez undergoing physical therapy – Bolivian President
Chavez undergoing physical therapy – Bolivian President
January 22, 2013 - 21:15 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is undergoing physical therapy to hasten his return home from Cuba after surgery last month for the cancer that has threatened to end his 14-year rule, Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Tuesday, Jan 22, according to Reuters.
The comments by Morales, a fellow leftist and close friend of Chavez, added to positive signals from Venezuelan officials that the president was improving and may be able to return from Cuba, where he had surgery on December 11. He has not been seen or heard from in public since then.
"I communicated with Cuba and, brothers and sisters, we have good news about our brother, President Hugo Chavez. He is already undergoing physical therapy to return to his country," Morales said in a speech to parliament in La Paz.
"Latin American leaders like Fidel (Castro) and Hugo Chavez are very much needed at international events and I'm certain that soon we will be (together again) at presidential summits," Morales added, without giving more details.
There were rumors around the New Year that Chavez, 58, was on life support. Those have given way in the past few days to speculation he may soon return to Venezuela. Local media reports have said a military hospital in Caracas is being prepared to receive Chavez.
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