More Surgery for Chavez
Steven L. Taylor
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Via the BBC: Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez faces new operation
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that he will have to have further surgery after doctors found a lesion during medical tests in Cuba.
The 57-year-old had two operations in Havana last year to remove a cancerous tumour from his pelvis, and had said he was completely recovered.
He said the lesion was in the same area and was probably malignant.
Clearly Chavez’s health is a greater threat to his continued rule in Venezuela over the long term than is the opposition.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Any clues as to what will happen should he die?
Is it wrong that I’m hoping he’ll die from it? The man has built up a huge cult of personality and government apparatus all around keeping himself in power, and him biting it would force Venezuela to re-examine all of that.