Venezuela government mocks rumors over Chavez’s death

1 March 2013 No comments

Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a rally in Caracas February 27, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins CARACAS | Fri Mar 1, 2013 9:56am EST (Reuters) – Hugo Chavez’s son-in-law mocked this week’s crescendo of rumors that the Venezuelan president may be dead or dying from the cancer he has been treated for since mid-2011. “The launching of absurd and bizarre rumors by the right wing simply discredits them and isolates them further …

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