Battling cancer, Chavez suffers more complications

December 31, 2012 08:15

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has suffered a new setback after cancer surgery in Cuba, raising new fears about his political future, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said.

"We have been informed of new complications that arose as a consequence of the respiratory infection we already knew about," Maduro said on state TV and radio yesterday from Havana. Cuba is Chavez's closest regional ally.

"President Chavez's condition is still delicate," Maduro added, warning that the complications "are being treated in a process that is not without its risks."

Chavez, the face of the Latin American left for more than a decade and a firebrand critic of US "imperialism," has been in power since 1999 in Venezuela, an OPEC member that sits on top of the world's largest proven oil reserves.

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