Venezuela's Chavez turns to shamans to fight cancer

[naaman fletcher]

Shamans from tribes in Venezuela's Amazon jungle held a ceremony at the Miraflores presidential palace to help Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recover from his cancer treatment.

Chavez, who insists that he was "not sick but recovering" from cancer, greeted the shamans wearing a track suit in the colors of the Venezuelan national flag and wore a crown of feathers the visitors gave him.

Members of the Yekuana, Jivi and Wayuu communities danced, sang and prayed as they invoked their ancestors to protect the Venezuelan leader.

The ritual was aimed at protecting Chavez "against enemies and bad health," said Miguel Morales, a shaman from the Jivi community.

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuelas-chavez-turns-shamans-fight-cancer-032813215.html

[ocpagu]

1. Western press' campaign against Chávez...

...has become so full of hatred, so obviously biased, so compromised with an evident political agenda, that I simply can't believe anything, anything at all, that they publish about Chávez. Anything. If they say "Chávez woke up at 8", I don't believe them.

That's also the reason why media has been losing its ability to influence public perception in South America. I believe that it'll also happen in the United States, sooner or later.

[Bacchus39]

2. I've never found the US media to be very influential in Latin America

all countries have their own print and television media.