Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?

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  1. Quigley_Sharps

    Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member

    CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.
    It was a typically controversial statement by Venezuela's socialist leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumor from his pelvis. But he stressed that he was not making any accusations, just thinking aloud.
    "It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now ... I don't know. I'm just reflecting," he said in a televised speech to troops at a military base.
    "But this is very, very, very strange ... it's a bit difficult to explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities."
    Chavez, Fernandez, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have all been diagnosed recently with cancer. All of them are leftists.
    Doctors say Fernandez has a very good chance of recovery and will not need chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Her diagnosis was made public on Tuesday.
    Chavez said other regional leaders should beware, including his close ally, Bolivian President Evo Morales.
    "We'll have to take good care of Evo. Take care Evo!" he said.
    The 57-year-old is Latin America's loudest critic of U.S. foreign policy along with Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro, and he frequently lashes out at what he calls the "Yankee Empire".
    CASTRO'S WARNING
    "Fidel always told me, 'Chavez take care. These people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care what you eat, what they give you to eat ... a little needle and they inject you with I don't know what,'" he said.
    In his comments on Wednesday, Chavez also slammed Washington and its European allies for criticizing Russia's recent parliamentary elections - and said they were planning the same thing for Venezuela's presidential election in October, when he will seek re-election.
    "They are crying fraud and saying the elections need to be re-run ... They're trying to destabilize no less than Russia, a nuclear power. That's the madness of the Empire," Chavez said.
    "I say this because here in Venezuela, the Imperial Yankee, the local bourgeoisie, and a good part of what they call the opposition parties here, are preparing a similar plan," he said.
    "I call on the armed forces to be alert, on the Venezuelan people to be alert. Because we are not going to let the Imperial Yankee destabilize Venezuela again like they did in the past."
    Details about Chavez's health remain a closely guarded secret, although he now appears to be recovering and is making longer and longer televised appearances.
    Earlier this month he made his first official foreign trip after his surgery, to a regional summit in Uruguay.
    Since his return he has often appeared sporting something of a younger, new look: a dark sports coat over an open-necked maroon shirt, and is hair is growing back after chemotherapy.
    It is far cry from the green fatigues and red beret that he became famous for wearing for much of his 13 years in power.
    (Editing by Kieran Murray)


    Venezuela's Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer? - Yahoo! News
     
  2. ditch witch

    ditch witch I do stupid crap, so you don't have to

    I thought we infected everyone with AIDS?
     
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  3. Redneck Rebel

    Redneck Rebel Monkey++

    Guy obviously needs to take off the tin foil hat, we are way too busy selling liquor and spreading crack addictions in the slums of our own country [stirpot]
     
  4. Seawolf1090

    Seawolf1090 Retired Curmudgeonly IT Monkey Founding Member

    I reckon Uncle Hugo got some Acapulco Gold in exchange for a bunch of shiney new AK47s to Mehico. He's obviously been smoking the 'good chit'...... biglaff
     
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  5. larryinalabama

    larryinalabama Monkey++

    Chavez, Casrol, and the rest of thsoe Dick-tadors are a real cancer all on their own.
     
  6. Illini Warrior

    Illini Warrior Illini Warrior

    pretty sure Chevez gave OBammy a ruffie .... he's been asleep at the wheel since 09 .... results not in whether he took advantage .....
     
  7. chelloveck

    chelloveck Diabolus Causidicus

    Chavez might be a cunning tool,

    Chavez might be a cunning tool, but he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. He apparently doesn't know much about probability and mortality / morbidity rates relative to age and lifestyle....smoking too many Cuban cigars and having too much fatty red meat in his diet relative to roughage / fruit and vegetables is the more likely cause of his big C....but he would NEVER admit responsibility for his own state of poor health....much easier to blame it on the imperialist Yankee aggressors (yawn).
     
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