By Charlie Devereux - Jun 22, 2011 5:49 PM GMT-0400. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is continuing a “slow recovery” in Cuba after an operation to remove a pelvic abscess on June 10, Vice President Elias Jaua said.">By Charlie Devereux - Jun 22, 2011 5:49 PM GMT-0400. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is continuing a “slow recovery” in Cuba after an operation to remove a pelvic abscess on June 10, Vice President Elias Jaua said.">

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By Charlie Devereux - Jun 22, 2011 5:49 PM GMT-0400. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is continuing a “slow recovery” in Cuba after an operation to remove a pelvic abscess on June 10, Vice President Elias Jaua said.

Chavez isn’t fully adhering to the advice of his doctors while he convalesces and continues to work from his hospital bed, Jaua told Caracas-based Union Radio today. The country is “functioning as it should” in his absence, Jaua said.

“The president is recovering -- he has a right to do that as a human being,” Jaua said. “The country has excellent stability in its politics and economy. There are institutions in the country that are functioning as they should.”

Since Chavez, 56, traveled to the communist island and underwent unannounced surgery, a lack of information from the government has raised questions about his true state of health and triggered debates about whether he should be running South America’s largest oil producer from Cuba.

Chavez last spoke in public on June 12, when he told Telesur television network by phone that he decided to seek treatment in Cuba, the final stop in a tour of allied governments in Latin America, after feeling pain in his abdomen while in Brasilia and Ecuador. He gave no estimate as to how long his recovery would take, saying only that his injury was “delicate” and that there’s “no reason to hurry” home.

Chavez told Telesur he was “lucky” because the abscess wasn’t infected or malignant.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-22/


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