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Chavez Is Reported to Be Very Sick

September 29th, 2011

By Dan Miller According to reports by the the London Telegraph and Fox News Latino, el Presidente Chávez was rushed to a military hospital in Caracas with kidney failure yesterday. The Fox report cites el Neuvo Herald in Miami as a source, noting Sources, “who spoke on the condition of anonymity,” said the President was […]

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Tags: cancer, Chavez, chemotherapy, hospital, kidney failure, Venezuela
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The Good, Bad, Worse and Worst News from Venezuela

July 22nd, 2011

By Dan Miller The good news is that el Presidente Chávez of Venezuela is reported to have only a fifty percent chance of living another eighteen months. Doctors treating Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez for cancer told him weeks ago that he has only a 50 percent chance of living another 18 months, according to sources […]

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Tags: cancer, chaos, Chavez, Cuba, death, succession, Venezuela
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Chávez Is Off to Brazil; Belay That, He’s Off to Cuba

July 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller It had been announced earlier that el Presidente Chávez of Venezuela would soon leave for cancer treatment in Brazil and that According to the state-run news agency, which did not disclose its sources, Hugo Chávez’s representatives negotiated directly with advisors of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff the details of the treatment. AFP tried […]

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Tags: Brazil, cancer, Chavez, chemotherapy, Cuba, surgery, Venezuela
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Toxic Trails

July 15th, 2011

By Jan Barry Residents of a once-isolated mountain community in Ringwood, NJ have a bone-chilling tale to tell the rest of America. And HBO is offering its cable television services to help convey this story via a new documentary called Mann v. Ford. Highlighting the community’s fight against a plague of illness and deaths they […]

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Tags: cancer, children, deaths, EPA, Ford, lawsuit, New Jersey, superfund, toxic
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Chávez Returns to Venezuela

July 5th, 2011

By Dan Miller El Presidente Chávez returned early [Monday] morning to Venezuela surprising most Venezuelans. He appeared to be in good spirits. (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ever-theatrical President Hugo Chavez made a surprise homecoming from Cuba on Monday and declared himself “fine” despite speculation his cancer may still require lengthy treatment. “I’m happy … I’m going […]

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Tags: 2012, cancer, Chavez, Cuba, elections, illness, return
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