Chavez in hospital for emergency care: report

[Dennis Donovan]

Source: AFP

MIAMI — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been fighting cancer, was rushed to a military hospital for emergency care following kidney failure, according to El Nuevo Herald newspaper.

The leftist, staunchly anti-US stalwart Chavez went into the Military Hospital in Caracas on Tuesday morning, the report on the newspaper's website said, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the case.

"He was in fairly serious overall condition," one of the sources told the Miami-based Spanish-language daily. "When he arrived, he was in quite serious shape and that is why he was brought in for emergency care."

Venezuela's Information Minister Andres Izarra appeared to deny the report in a posting on the micro-blogging website Twitter.

"Those who should be admitted are the journalists of the Nuevo Herald, except into a madhouse (instead of a hospital)," Izarra tweeted, without providing further details.

On Sunday, Chavez sought to assure Venezuelans he was healthy, telling them that cancer-fighting chemotherapy treatment has not left him with any debilitating side effects.
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[Rhiannon12866]

1. K&R. Important news...

Yikes! :wow: :hi:

[EFerrari]

2. If it's true.

Remember, the vultures had him dead over the summer.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Good point! Though we do know he's genuinely sick...

:( :hi:

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4. The Guardian strikes again!

At long last, have they no shame?

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Another source on this story, bizarre:

Chavez Hospitalized for Kidney Failure, Nuevo Herald Says

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez entered a hospital in Caracas to undergo emergency treatment for kidney failure, El Nuevo Herald newspaper reported, citing sources close to the situation it didn’t name.

Chavez, who has been receiving chemotherapy for an undisclosed form of cancer, checked into the military hospital in the capital on Sept. 27, according to the newspaper, which is the Spanish-language sister of the Miami Herald. The Venezuelan leader is likely to undergo dialysis and may be transferred to a private hospital to receive better treatment, the report said.

A press official for Chavez who is not authorized to speak publicly declined to comment. Communications Minister Andres Izarra, while not confirming or denying the report, said in a posting on Twitter that the Nuevo Herald journalists who wrote the story should be checked into a “lunatic asylum.”

The former paratrooper, who had a baseball-sized tumor removed by doctors in Cuba in June, told state television last week he had finished chemotherapy in Cuba and was anticipating a “full recovery.” Chavez has been preparing for presidential elections scheduled for October of next year, relying on social media site Twitter and calling into state media as he seeks to extend his 12-year rule until 2019.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/chavez-hospitalized-for-kidney-failure-nuevo-herald-says-1-.html

[Kolesar]

6. This is sad...eom

[EFerrari]

30. This is the same story -- from El Nuevo Herald. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

43. I saw that, but it's all I could find...

Strange... :hi:

[global1]

7. Who Is His Successor Should He Die?.....

And will that person be better or worse for their people and the world?

[Bacchus39]

26. the VP but I would wait for confirmation on this story n/t

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[TBF]

8. I checked Granma online (Cuba's paper) - but they don't have any info yet

He was in Havana for his last surgery, but this appears to be an emergency trip to Caracas for kidney failure. Hope he's ok, that sounds pretty serious. It's in several other sources - Business Week etc...

[malaise]

9. Damn!!

This is not good news

[Mosaic]

10. I'm not sure Chavez would like prayers

God bless him anyway. I like him a lot.

[roody]

14. He is quite religious.

[Peace Patriot]

15. Chavez is a Catholic and I'm sure wants prayers. In fact there was a prayer service

for Chavez at the Riverside Baptist Church in NY (famous as the site of M.L. King's anti-Vietnam War speech and for its ecumenism) last week, I believe. Chavez's leftist policies of social justice and help for the poor, and those of many other Latin American leaders, are deeply connected to the "liberation theology" movement within the Catholic Church. Chavez has often referred to his religious belief. That you don't know this about him, and seem to suspect him of being a "godless communist," is probably the result of the mindbogglingly deceitful propaganda that has issued forth from the U.S. State Department and the corpo-fascist media, non-stop, since he was elected. It is not your fault. We've all been fooled and disinformed by this propaganda machine, on one thing or another. We just need to be very alert to its propaganda goals and methods.

It's interesting that it was a very rightwing Catholic cardinal--a cardinal who spent his career in the Vatican finance office and is the only prelate who was ever fired by the Pope (during the fascist banking scandals of the 1980s)--who started the "talking point" that Chavez was "increasingly authoritarian." (The real issue was government subsidies of Catholic schools and hospitals.) The Associated Pukes use the phrase "his critics say..." (that he is "increasingly authoritarian," etc.) to disguise their sources (RW Catholic cardinals, the CIA, et al). It is supremely ironical that a fascist cardinal would call Chavez "authoritarian."

I'm also reminded of the RW coup general in Honduras who stated that their coup was intended "to prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States" (quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile). Chavez is not a communist and Venezuela is not a communist country. The Chavez government is socialist--very similar to many European/Scandinavian socialist governments--and its economy is mixed (socialist/capitalist). Where did this Honduran general get the notion that he and his RW coupsters are protecting the United States from communism? This remark is deeply revealing of the sort of propaganda methods used against the social justice and Latin American independence policies of Chavez and the other new left leaders in Latin America.

[bitchkitty]

11. Praying for his quick recovery, if true. n/t

[dotymed]

12. Stand Proud Hugo.

You have made a great difference to Venezuela and the world. Keep fighting, you have a lot of unfinished business. We could use you in D.C, Oct. 6

[Botany]

13. "Bush es El Diablo"

Although he has his faults the man spoke the truth

[fascisthunter]

16. hope he gets well

[wial]

17. hopefully not a cancer bomb

The US is known for such things. Such an affront to our way of life that he built so many hospitals and schools for the poor! Feeding them too! Doesn't he care at all about letting the hidden hand work its wonders?

[devilgrrl]

18. Oh no - how will be dictator for life if he's ill?

:sarcasm:

[tjwash]

19. "The leftist, staunchly anti-US stalwart Chavez"

Ahhh....the fair and balanced liberal media.

[Renew Deal]

20. Is that statement untrue?

:shrug:

[ronnie624]

38. It's a meme.

Used repetitively, It plants in the mind of the gullible reader, that the Chavez government is an enemy, and thus a threat to the United States; a notion that is ludicrous on its face.

Chavez has said on a number of occasions that he likes the U.S. and its people. He just doesn't like U.S. foreign policy regarding Venezuela and the rest of Latin America, which is perfectly understandable when one considers the facts about the history of U.S. involvement there.

"Staunchly anti-US" is just propaganda for molding perceptions and shaping world views.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

41. He's not "anti-US" at all --

He is anti-our attempting to overthrow him, anti-US policies that threaten his people/country -- you know that kind of "anti". In fact, I am an American that is that kind of anti, too

[fascisthunter]

45. thank you

funny you needed to explain that

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Note that it's from Agence France-Presse

not from an American news agency. (And Chavez is in fact both leftist and anti-US.)

[EFerrari]

33. It's a rewrite of virulent anti-Chavez El Nuevo Herald's story

And Chavez is not anti-US, he's anti-imperialist, in fact.

[Gregorian]

35. Pathetic, isn't it. Unless by "leftist" they mean normal human being as opposed to fascist conservat

[defendandprotect]

21. Can't help wondering ....

if the CIA helped him come by the cancer -- !!

[Dreamer Tatum]

32. Oh, I'm sure of it.

They've been perfecting it for hundreds of years, killing hundreds of millions of people, just waiting for their chance.

:eyes:

[defendandprotect]

39. Presume you're not sure of it --

See the Church Hearings on that --

And certainly "enemies lists" have not been unheard of -- See Nixon on that --


Meanwhile, I wouldn't say that corporate pollution has done anything but harm the

health of Americans and the planet -- or that Global Warming hasn't already taken

a heavy toll on populations globally and will continue to do so.


Fukushima being just one disastrous example of that -

[Freddie Stubbs]

47. Karl Rove won't let the CIA use his tsunami machine anymore, so they had to resort to

giving him radioactive coca leaves.

[jwirr]

23. That does not sound good. I assume that our CIA and corporations

are all poised to swoop down to save Venezuela for Standard Oil? I pity the people of Venezuela when he dies. Hopefully he has set up a strong successor.

[hack89]

24. Hopefully he has set up fair elections

let the people choose his successor.

[jwirr]

25. That he has already done - at least as fair as anything we do here

in the USA. If you think the majority of the poor in Venezuela did not willingly vote for him then you do not understand poverty. Rather he was sincere in his concern for the poor is beside the point - he knew that helping them would keep him in office. It was the supporters of Standard Oil that wanted him out.

[hack89]

28. A peaceful transition of power is hardest thing for young democracies

it is where so many fail. I hope you are right.

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[EFerrari]

31. Venezuela's elections are cleaner than ours. n/t

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[EFerrari]

37. Watching Fox News will rot your brain. n/t

[defendandprotect]

40. +1000% --

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[Hell Hath No Fury]

42. Ah, the "D" word --

:eyes:

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[EFerrari]

36. Hugo Chavez denies media reports of health emergency

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15112821?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Thanks for the followup!

:hi:

Mr Chavez, who had a fourth and final round of chemotherapy last week, urged Venezuelans to ignore such rumours.

The Miami-based Nuevo Herald newspaper had quoted hospital sources as saying he was in a serious condition.

In a telephone interview with VTV, Mr Chavez said reports about his health were untrue.

"I ask the Venezuelan people to ignore these rumours. If anything happened, I'd be the first person to tell you about any difficulty," he said.