Are Hugo Chavez's Days Numbered?

Venezuela's President Chavez Photo: Edwin Montilva/REUTERS

Hugo Chavez's Family 'Want Him To Give Up Presidency Due To Cancer' -- The Telegraph

A doctor who fled Venezuela after claiming President Hugo Chavez has only two years to live has said he only spoke out at the request of the radical left-wing leader's own family because they want him to step down.

Salvador Navarrete was labelled "a great con man" by Mr Chavez last month after telling a magazine that the cancer which the Venezuelan leader says he has already overcome was "very aggressive" and probably terminal.

Shortly afterwards, the doctor hurriedly left Venezuela with his family for an undisclosed location, amid reports that police had visited his offices in Caracas.

Now a new statement, released via medical colleagues of Dr Navarrete, threatens to undermine further Mr Chavez's insistence that he has been declared free of cancer and will be fit to fight next year's presidential election.

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My Comment: Chavez says that he is now cancer free .... this is why his family's (i.e. kids) request that he resign all the more surprising. Because his kids (who are now adults) are voicing these concerns .... I cannot help but feel that there is more to this story than what is being told to us.