When was hugo chavez diagnosed with cancer

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Deutsche Welle. Audiotrainer Deutschtrainer Die Bienenretter. Hugo Chavez is dead. Date Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated last month that the US might have used a secret weapon to give Latin American leaders cancer, as the number of them with the disease was "difficult to explain using the laws of probabilities" - but is it?

Treated for cancer himself last year, he was speaking the day after the Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with the condition - or misdiagnosed, as it turned out. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, 64, had treatment for lymphoma in Her predecessor, Lula da Silva, 66, has been treated for throat cancer. Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, 60, was diagnosed with lymphoma in August but is now in remission after chemotherapy. This made five leaders out of a total of 24 Latin American countries, at the time of Mr Chavez's speech, although it became clear after an operation this month that President Fernandez was suffering from something else entirely.

President Chavez stressed that he was thinking aloud rather than making "rash accusations". The US State Department described his comments as "horrific and reprehensible". But was he right that such a concentration of cancer is statistically improbable? He lost his pulse several times during the surgery and had to be resuscitated by doctors. Cuban medics designed a special antibiotic to counter the infection, the medical source said, but even so Chavez had to undergo a tracheotomy to enable him to breathe through a tube in the windpipe.

In his last few days, a heavily-dosed Chavez met only with his closest family and aides despite a clamor from Venezuelan supporters - and opponents - to see him. On Saturday, ministers were with him for about five hours, before a rapid deterioration began. He slipped into a coma on Monday and died at p.

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