Chavez’s cancer returns ahead of vote

Chavez met with close aides on Wednesday to chalk out a plan during his absence while heart-felt messages of support poured in from the leaders around the Latin America.

“I am in good physical shape to confront this new battle,” Chavez said on Tuesday afternoon.

“I ask for life. I want to live with you and fight with you until the last moment of this life that God gave me,” he added.

The socialist leader received messages expressing concern and support from Presidents Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Francisco Mujica of Uruguay, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Cristina Fernandez of Argentina, Venezuela’s foreign ministry said.

Chavez told his nation that Cuban doctors had found a two-centimeter lesion that is likely cancerous in the same area where they removed a cancerous tumor in 2011.

The 57-year-old former soldier stated that he would likely need radiation therapy.

“If it is malignant, I would be going into a different phase… certainly localized radiation therapy,” Chavez said.

“I’m not going to be able to continue with the same rhythm,” he told state TV in a telephone call on Tuesday night.

Chavez added that he would need to “rethink my personal agenda and take care of myself, confront what must be confronted.”

The popular leader, who came to power in 1999, is seeking another six-year term in the October 7 elections.

“No one needs to be alarmed, and no one should start celebrating: because independent of what my personal fate may be, this revolution is on its way and nobody and nothing is going to stop it,” Chavez said.

His rival in the October vote, Henrique Capriles, wished Chavez a successful operation, a quick recovery and a long life.

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