Senior aides and relatives of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez have countered a crescendo of rumours that the socialist president may be dead from cancer, saying he is still battling for his life.
Senior aides and relatives of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez have countered a crescendo of rumours that the socialist president may be dead from cancer, saying he is still battling for his life.
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"There he is, continuing his fight, his battle, and we are sure of victory!" his older brother Adan Chavez, the governor of Barinas state, told cheering supporters.
Speculation about Chavez, 58, hit fever pitch last week, fed in part by assertions from Panama's former ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS), Guillermo Cochez, that the Venezuelan leader had died.
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