syria chavez overcomes respiratory infection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venezuela’s government has announced that President Hugo Chavez has overcome a severe respiratory infection that came as a complication after his last cancer surgery in Cuba. “The respiratory infection has been overcome, although there still is some degree of breathing difficulty that is being treated appropriately,” Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas said Saturday on the sidelines of a regional summit with European Union leaders in Chile. Chavez has not been seen in public since his fourth and most serious surgery on December 11.  His ill health meant Chavez had to skip his inauguration ceremony to take more time to recover…JA