Chavez mulls over U.S. cancer plot

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has questioned whether the U.S. has developed a secret technology to give cancer to left-wing leaders in Latin America. Would it be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it?" Chavez asked in a televised speech to soldiers at an army base, the BBC has reported. Chavez mulls over U.S. cancer plot Treated for cancer this year, Chavez broached the subject a day after news that Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had thyroid cancer. “We will live and we will conquer!" he told her. The 58-year-old Argentine president is due to have an operation on January 4, but doctors say her prognosis is very good. She will transfer the presidential power to her deputy for the next 20 days. Aside from Venezuelan and Argentine presidents, Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been diagnosed with cancer, the BBC reports. Chavez, who is 57, has often accused the U.S. of plotting to overthrow or even kill him. Lula and Chavez previously joked that they would hold a summit of Latin American leaders who had beaten cancer. Fernandez has now said that she will insist on being the "honorary president" of the summit of cancer survivors. Hugo Chavez (Beta) Tanjug

Chavez mulls over U.S. cancer plot

Treated for cancer this year, Chavez broached the subject a day after news that Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had thyroid cancer.

“We will live and we will conquer!" he told her.

The 58-year-old Argentine president is due to have an operation on January 4, but doctors say her prognosis is very good. She will transfer the presidential power to her deputy for the next 20 days.

Aside from Venezuelan and Argentine presidents, Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been diagnosed with cancer, the BBC reports.

Chavez, who is 57, has often accused the U.S. of plotting to overthrow or even kill him.

Lula and Chavez previously joked that they would hold a summit of Latin American leaders who had beaten cancer.

Fernandez has now said that she will insist on being the "honorary president" of the summit of cancer survivors.