Chavez returns home to Venezuela after surgery
March 16, 2012
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election. Chavez has kept secret some details of his illness, such as the type of cancer, spurring speculation about how his cancer might affect the country's political landscape.
His close allies have assured Venezuelans that there is no Plan B and that Chavez is the only leader of his movement heading into the elections. Chavez was greeted by his vice president and Cabinet ministers, and soldiers standing at attention.
He stepped down the stairs at the plane hand-in-hand with a daughter and his mother.
The president has said a Feb. 26 surgery in Cuba removed a tumor from the same
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