Venezuela: Chávez Continues Treatment

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President Hugo Chávez continues to be treated for breathing problems two months after having cancer surgery in Cuba, a government spokesman said Thursday. Mr. Chávez returned to Venezuela on Monday but has not been seen in public since before his Dec. 11 operation. “The respiratory deficiency that arose in the course of the postoperative period persists, and its tendency has not been favorable, for which reason he continues to be treated,” the information minister, Ernesto Villegas, said in the first official update on the president’s health since his return. He did not say what the treatment was, but last week he said the president had a tube inserted in his trachea to aid in breathing.