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Venezuelan President: Barack Obama Gave Me Cancer

Hugo Chavez is insinuating that the U.S. is the reason why he has cancer: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hinted that the U.S. may be behind a “very strange” bout of cancer affecting several leaders aligned with him in South America. Chavez, speaking a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, said the Central Intelligence Agency was behind chemical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and that it’s possible that in years to come a plot will be uncovered that shows the U.S. spread cancer as a political weapon against its critics. “It’s very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America,” Chavez said in a nationally televised speech to the military. “Would it be so strange that they’ve invented technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?” Chavez, who was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in June and had a baseball-sized tumor removed in Cuba, has called for a regional summit of leaders who have battled cancer including Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo. “I’m just sharing my thoughts, but it’s very, very, very strange,” Chavez said. “Evo take care of yourself, Correa, be careful, we just don’t know,” he said, referring to Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, the leaders of Bolivia and Ecuador. Thomas Mittnacht, press director at the U.S. embassy in Caracas, declined to comment when reached by telephone. Thoughts?? Keep in mind that this is the same guy who said U.S. was to blame for the earthquakes in Haiti. Source

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Venezuelan President: Barack Obama Gave Me Cancer

Dozens of radio stations shut down in Venezuela

CNN) — At least 34 private radio stations in Venezuela were closed indefinitely Friday, and 206 more were at risk of being shut down, a government official said. The stations were closed for various reasons, including expired permits and operation by unauthorized personnel, said Diosdado Cabello, minister of Public Works and Housing. “Freedom of expression is not the most sacred freedom,” Cabello was quoted as saying by CNN affiliate Globovision Most station owners said the closures were politically motivated.

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Dozens of radio stations shut down in Venezuela