Chavez recovering after cancer surgery

December 13, 2012 00:47

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was recovering in a Cuban hospital today after six hours of surgery to treat a cancerous lesion in an operation his vice president said ended "successfully." Chavez would soon begin a "post-operative phase" that would last several days, Nicolas Maduro said in an address to the nation in Caracas late yesterday.

Chavez, 58, flew to Havana for surgery on Monday after revealing that his cancer had returned just two months after his triumphant re-election. His new six-year term in office is scheduled to begin on January 10.

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