'How are my people?' Chavez asks post-surgery

December 15, 2012 16:00

Hugo Chavez's first words after emerging from surgery were "How are my (Venezuelan) people?" according to officials, who have proclaimed that the ailing leader is on the road to recovery.

Venezuela's Information Minister Ernesto Villegas told reporters yesterday that Chavez spoke with family members immediately after an operation to control bleeding after his cancer surgery earlier this week, and that his recovery was proceeding "satisfactorily."

Although Chavez, who underwent lengthy cancer surgery Tuesday in Cuba, faces a complex recovery process, he is "meeting the post-operative protocol in satisfactory fashion," the minister said in nationally broadcast remarks.

Minutes after Villegas's comments, Chavez spokeswoman Teresa Maniglia wrote on Twitter: "'How are my people?' was the first thing Chavez said today when he spoke with his family for the first time."

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