2013-01-03 09:02:03

Venezuela’s Chavez remains in Cuban hospital


Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro has left Cuba, where Hugo Chavez remains, still seriously ill following cancer surgery. Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, who's the Executive Secretary of the opposition coalition- the Democratic Unity Table, says that full and not partial power must now be handed over to Maduro. He says the Constitution states this should be done if the President is out of the country for more than five days. Aveledo argues that it's obvious that Hugo Chavez is not currently in control and appropriate measures must be taken. National Assembly leader Diosdado Cabello, who's going for re-election this Saturday, says the January 10th inauguration day for Chavez can be extended. He's a political rival of Maduro. Maduro has left Cuba, but Chavez's Son in Law Jorge Arreaza, who's Venezuela's Science Minister, says that the President's brother Adan has now arrived in Havana. Arreaza describes the President's condition as stable but delicate. Nothing has been directly heard from President Chavez since his fourth cancer operation more than three weeks ago.

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