Chavez suffers new post-surgery complications [1]

Reuters - 12/30/12, Daniel Wallis

A still image taken from a Venezuelan government television broadcast shows Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro talking to the media during a news conference in Havana December 30, 2012.
Credit: REUTERS/Venezuelan Government TV/Handout

(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is suffering more complications linked to a respiratory infection that hit him after his fourth cancer operation in Cuba [2], his vice president said in a somber broadcast on Sunday.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro flew to Cuba to visit Chavez in the hospital as supporters' fears grew for the ailing 58-year-old socialist leader, who has not been seen in public nor heard from in three weeks.

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