CARACAS, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s cancer-stricken
president, Hugo Chavez, is recovering in Cuba and is not in a
coma as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother,
Adan Chavez, said after a visit to Havana.

The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen or heard
from since his Dec. 11 cancer surgery – his fourth such
operation after the disease was detected in his pelvic area in
mid-2011 – leaving Venezuela in a state of suspense.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez is recovering in Cuba and is not in a coma as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother, Adan Chavez, said after a visit to Havana.

The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen or heard from since his December 11 cancer surgery – his fourth such operation after the disease was detected in his pelvic area in mid-2011 – leaving Venezuela in a state of national suspense.

CARACAS, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s cancer-stricken
President Hugo Chavez is recovering in Cuba and is not in a coma
as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother, Adan
Chavez, said after a visit to Havana.

The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen or heard
from since his Dec. 11 cancer surgery – his fourth such
operation after the disease was detected in his pelvic area in
mid-2011 – leaving Venezuela in a state of national suspense.

CARACAS, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A flamboyant look-a-like of
Latin American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara has for years
been a familiar sight on the streets of Venezuela whipping up
support for his other socialist hero, President Hugo Chavez.

Yet 54-year-old Humberto Lopez cuts a more subdued figure
these days as he waits and prays for better news from Cuba where
Chavez is battling to recover from cancer surgery.

CARACAS, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
remained on his sickbed in Cuba on Thursday while supporters
planned to rally in his honor on the day he should have been
sworn in for a new six-year term in the South American OPEC
nation.

The postponement of the inauguration, a first in Venezuelan
history, has laid bare the gravity of Chavez’s condition after
complications from a fourth cancer operation in his pelvic area.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition demanded on Tuesday to know if President Hugo Chavez was well enough to be sworn in for a new term this week, and two Latin American leaders confirmed they would come even in his absence.

The government says the formal January 10 start of the cancer-stricken Chavez’s new six-year term can be postponed with no consequences, while the opposition says a caretaker president should be appointed if Chavez is unable to be sworn in.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition demanded on Tuesday to know if President Hugo Chavez was well enough to be sworn in for a new term this week, and two Latin American leaders confirmed they would come even in his absence.

The government says the formal January 10 start of the cancer-stricken Chavez’s new six-year term can be postponed with no consequences, while the opposition says a caretaker president should be appointed if Chavez is unable to be sworn in.

CARACAS, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez’s formal swearing-in for a new six-year term scheduled
for Jan. 10 can be postponed if he is unable to attend due to
his struggle to recover from cancer surgery, his vice president
said on Friday.

Nicolas Maduro’s comments were the clearest yet that
Venezuela’s government is preparing to delay the swearing-in
while avoiding naming a replacement or calling a new election in
the South American OPEC nation.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition mocked President Hugo Chavez’s chosen successor Nicolas Maduro on Friday as a “poor copy” of his boss who should be promoting national unity rather than insulting opponents during a delicate time for the South American nation.

In power since 1999, Chavez named vice president and foreign minister Maduro as his preferred replacement should he be incapacitated by the cancer he is battling in Cuba.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Murals adorning a Caracas slum that has given militant backing to President Hugo Chavez over the years are a virtual pantheon of international radicals.

From Colombia’s FARC guerrillas to the Palestine Liberation Organization and Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the images and slogans on teeming slopes above Chavez’s presidential palace hail socialist revolutionaries the world over.