VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ-HEALTH-FILE

VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ-HEALTH-FILE

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gestures at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on October 1, 2011. Chavez has undergone surgery in Cuba to remove a potentially cancerous lesion and is in “good condition,” Vice President Elias Jaua said on February 28, 2012. The surgery was to remove a lesion from the same pelvic area where Cuban doctors cut out a cancerous tumor last year. AFP PHOTO/Leo RAMIREZ