Chavez Orders Venezuela Economic Plan as Health Improves

Venezuela’s government said President Hugo Chavez has recovered sufficiently from a cancer operation in Cuba to make economic policy decisions and that his plans to boost exports will be outlined soon.

A respiratory infection Chavez contracted after the operation last month is under control and the former paratrooper is making domestic and foreign policy decisions again, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas told reporters yesterday in Santiago, where he was attending a meeting of regional and European leaders. The day before, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Chavez, 58, had approved a new economic plan.