Chavez Medical Emergency?
Hugo Chavez may be en route to a Brazilian hospital with complications:
Brazilian media is reporting that ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will make an emergency trip to Brazil after allegedly suffering intestinal burns during his radiation treatment in Cuba.Chávez, who in June of last year revealed that Cuban doctors had removed a cancerous tumor from his abdominal region, has been going back-and-forth from the island nation for treatment. The Associated Press reported earlier on Thursday that the Venezuelan leader had returned to his country on Wednesday night from radiation treatment in Cuba.
He may be headed to the hospital Sirio e Libanês in Sao Paulo, where Dilma Rouseff, Lula and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo have been treated for cancer.
Brazilian journalist Merval Pereira says that the emergency trip is being spun by the Venezuelan government as a visit to Lula. Pereira has spoken to doctors at the hospital who so far have made no preparations for Chavez's arrival, but allow that Chavez could be admitted for tests. Pereira also says that there is a big fight going on between chavistas as to whether Chavez should travel or not, due to security and secrecy issues.
Just yesterday Chavez was begging God to let him live longer in front of a very small audience:
â??Dame tu corona, Cristo. Dámela que yo sangro, dame tu cruz, cien cruces, que yo la llevo, pero dame vida. No me lleves todavía, dame tus espinas, dame tu sangre, que yo estoy dispuesto a llevarla pero con vida, Cristo, mi señor. Amén."Give me your crown, Christ. Give it to me as I bleed, a hundred crosses, that I carry it, but give me life. Don't take me away yet, give me your thorns, give me your blood, that I am willing to carry it, but with life, Christ, my lord. Amen.
(My translation. If you use it, please credit me and link to this post.)
Cross-posted at Fausta's blog
