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Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez talks during a television broadcast about
Ciudad Caribia
'Caribia City' located outside Caracas August 27, 2011.
(Credit:
Reuters/Miraflores Palace/Handout)
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(Reuters) -
President Hugo Chavez will undergo a third round of chemotherapy for cancer at
home in Venezuela beginning Sunday, he said, instead of traveling to Cuba where
he had two previous rounds of treatment.
The
57-year-old gave few details during a TV appearance on Saturday, but the choice
to have his next session at home could indicate he is more optimistic about the
pace of his recovery ahead of a bid for a new six-year term at an election in
2012.
The
socialist leader underwent surgery in Havana in June to remove a baseball-sized
tumor, then returned to the communist-led island twice for chemotherapy as the
guest of his friend and mentor, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
In an
apparent return to his governing style before he fell ill, Chavez has raised
his pace at work this week, hosting several meetings on state TV to launch
government projects.
"We
have decided, because we have created all the conditions ... to do this third
cycle here in Venezuela," said Chavez, shaven-headed and wearing a
military uniform while leading a televised cabinet meeting for more than three
hours.
Chavez, who
has not specified what type of cancer he has, repeated that all his recent
tests have been positive and his doctors have found no malignant cells in his
body. He has said he could require radiotherapy after the chemotherapy.
Venezuela's
fractious opposition coalition, which is due to hold primary elections in
February to pick a single candidate to face him, sees next year's election as
the best chance to unseat the former soldier and end his 12 years in power.
(Reporting
by Enrique Andres Pretel; Writing by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Todd Eastham)
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