Via the BBC (Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez heads to Cuba for more surgery): “Mr Chavez, 57, is expected to undergo an operation on a lesion which he says is probably malignant.”
Why Cuba, one might ask?
I think that Greg Weeks provided the basic answer earlier this week:
The Hugo Chávez saga keeps chugging along. He says there is a good chance the lesion is malignant and is going to Havana because "allá [en Cuba] hay más seguridad para este tipo de operación," by which he means no information can get out.
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The end result is confusion and distrust, which is exactly what the country does not need at the moment
Indeed.
