Venezuelans Keep Faith in Chavez Recovery After 10-Week Absence
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A majority of Venezuelans believe President Hugo Chavez, who hasn’t appeared in public for more than two months since undergoing his fourth cancer operation in Cuba, will recover from his illness.
About 57 percent of the self-declared socialist’s compatriots think that while he isn’t cured of cancer, he will eventually defeat the disease, said Luis Vicente Leon, president of polling company Datanalisis. About 27 percent think he won’t get better while 2.8 percent think he could be dead already and 1 percent think he was never ill in the first place, Leon said today in Caracas.