CANCER is a personal tragedy. Even his bitterest foes should wish Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, a speedy recovery from the illness that has now sent him to doctors in Havana for the second time in six weeks. There is no way of knowing whether this is likely: Mr Chávez’s government treats the details of his condition as a state secret, in the worst traditions of the Kremlin or North Korea (see article). But his supporters should be under no illusion: even before the man himself was struck down, chavismo was in terminal decline, outside Venezuela at least.
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