Chavez Foes Want Venezuelan Vice President to Take Power
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Venezuela’s opposition said cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez is unable to fulfill his duties and that the government should temporarily hand his full powers over to Vice President Nicolas Maduro.
Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, executive secretary of the opposition alliance known as the Democratic Unity Table, said the government should “tell the truth” about Chavez’s state of health. The self-declared socialist, who is supposed to be sworn in for his next term on Jan. 10, hasn’t been seen in public since alighting from a plane in Havana Dec. 10 to undergo a fourth cancer-related surgery.