• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 06 / 27 / 2011

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Updated: 15:13, Sunday, 26 June 2011. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba following emergency surgery, is in a 'critical' but stable condition.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba following emergency surgery, is in 'critical' but stable condition, Miami's El Nuevo Herald reported.

Mr Chavez's government has said he was operated on for a pelvic abscess on 10 June and is recovering well.

The president's brother told Venezuelan state media that Mr Chavez could return to Caracas in about two weeks.

But the Venezuelan government has not addressed details of Chavez's condition, and angry opposition lawmakers in Caracas say it is unconstitutional for the president to be governing from abroad.

The El Nuevo Herald cited unnamed US intelligence sources as refusing to comment on rumours in Venezuela that Chavez could be receiving treatment for prostate cancer.

The same sources said Chavez's daughter, Rosines, and his mother, Marisabel Rodriguez, were recently whisked off to Cuba in an air force plane.

Information Minister Andres Izarra urged his Twitter followers to not repeat rumours. Chavez 'is recovering well from his operation,' Mr Izarra said.

Mr Chavez himself fired off a brief Twitter message saying that his youngest daughter and three grandchildren arrived in Cuba to visit him.

He arrived in Cuba on 8 June on the final leg of a trip that also included Brazil and Ecuador and was rushed into emergency surgery after suffering sharp pain diagnosed as a pelvic abscess that required immediate surgery.

Source: http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0626/venezuela.html