What if Hugo Chavez Is Too Sick to Run?

What if Hugo Chavez Is Too Sick to Run?

Lent, the pre-Easter season that started last week, is traditionally a time when Christians ponder their mortality – and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had a lot of it to contemplate before he left Caracas for Havana to undergo more cancer surgery. The firebrand socialist, after months of insisting he was cancer free, disclosed that doctors had found a new lesion in the same pelvic area where they removed a tumor last June. The latest growth is “most likely malignant,” Chávez conceded – aggressively so, medical experts are suggesting – leaving him “preparing to face the worst.” But, trying to buoy supporters who’d come out en masse to see him off last Friday, Feb. 24, he told them he’d recently had a vision of Jesus Christ saying, “Chávez, rise up, it’s not time to die, it’s time to live.”

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