Chávez will be a candidate in 2012.
Despite having cancer, the Venezuelan president says he has medical, scientific, human, loving, and political reasons to remain in power.
247 with international agencies - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that he will run for re-election in 2012, despite having recently undergone cancer treatment. In an interview published this Sunday by the state newspaper "Correo del Orinoco," Chávez said he has medical, scientific, human, love, and political reasons to remain in government and run with more strength than before.
President Hugo Chávez returned to Venezuela on Saturday after completing the first phase of chemotherapy in Cuba. He stressed that his treatment was still ongoing, adding that he had been advised to make this clear by the former Cuban leader and his close ally, Fidel Castro. "It's a difficult fight that takes time," the Venezuelan said in a nationally televised address from Caracas airport. "We are winning [the fight], and we will win, but it takes time and has its own rhythm."
The news that the Venezuelan president had undergone surgery last month in Havana to remove a tumor the size of a baseball has raised questions about his ability to run for another presidential term.