Hugo Chavez to return home this week after cancer surgery

The president paraphrased German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as he
borrowed a metaphor to describe his cancer struggle, calling it “my
longest and steepest hike.”

Chavez referred to his health only briefly, instead focusing on government
projects from subway expansion work to public housing complexes. The program
seemed aimed at projecting a business-as-usual image of the president at
work.

Chavez spoke energetically while signing documents to approve spending. He
paused for televised appearances by his vice president, who spoke from a
government-run chicken farm alongside Chavez’s brother in Venezuela, and his
health minister, who appeared leading a tour of a Venezuelan hospital.

In the hospital, Health Minister Eugenia Sader passed the microphone to a boy,
who repeated a slogan that has been used frequently by the president’s
supporters: “Onward, Comandante.”

The program was recorded earlier Sunday and lasted more than two hours. In his
typical style, Chavez flipped through a book on socialism, laughed with his
aides and briefly broke into song.

He also read aloud a get-well note sent to him by a young girl.

“I promise you I will keep getting better,” Chavez said.

Source: agencies

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