Venezuela’s vice president has said that Hugo Chavez is fighting for his health in a televised address. Chavez recently returned from cancer treatment in Cuba, but is suffering from a respiratory infection.
Few details emerged about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his vice president’s address on state television. Vice President Nicolas Maduro said the ailing president’s condition as having reached a “complex and difficult” stage.
The long-time leader only recently returned to his homeland following cancer treatment in Cuba. A respiratory infection, which he developed after his surgery, was preventing Chavez from making a public speech, the government previously said.
Chavez recently announced that he had returned to Venezuela, though he only did so via Twitter, and the vice president’s latest description of Chavez’s health was ambiguous.
“[President Chavez is] battling for his health, for his life, and we are accompanying him,” said Maduro on state-run television.
