NEW ELECTION POSSIBLE IN VENEZUELA

December Caribbean Memo 2012
New Election Possible In Venezuela
Date: 01-December-2012
From: News Center Publications

Dear Friends,

If Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez dies before January 10th of next year, a new election will be called within 30 days, according to the South American country’s constitution.

The possibility surfaced after one news report concluded: “All signs are pointing to his health failing him very, very soon.” Chavez’s vice president, Nicolas Maduro added: “it was a difficult and complex operation.”

The 58-year-old socialist leader has had four cancer operations in Cuba since mid-2011, the last one coming Tuesday, December 11, when he returned to Havana to receive treatment normally used to alleviate bone decay from radiation therapy, according to a British news service.

Re-elected for a third time October 7th and scheduled to be sworn in January 10th, Chavez's new six-year term would extend through February of 2019 if he survives and is able to take the oath of office.

One might also ask another important question about Chavez.

Why be treated in Havana rather than by superior doctors in Venezuela?

Here is for us what seems like a logical answer.

In Cuba, all information related to his true physical condition can easily be controlled by the Communist government.

Chavez reportedly feared that would not be the case in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, despite his many attempts to control the press there.

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