{{President Hugo Chavez is breathing with greater difficulty as a new and severe respiratory infection has taken hold, Venezuela’s government said, describing the cancer-stricken president’s condition as “very delicate.”}}<\/p>\n
A brief statement read on national television by Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas late Monday carried the sobering news about the charismatic 58-year-old socialist leader’s deteriorating health.<\/p>\n
Villegas said Chavez is suffering from “a new, severe infection.” The state news agency identified it as respiratory.<\/p>\n
Chavez, 58, has been undergoing “chemotherapy of strong impact,” Villegas added without providing further details.<\/p>\n
Chavez has neither been seen nor heard from, except for “proof-of-life” photos released in mid-February, since submitting to a fourth round of surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area. It was first diagnosed in June 2011.<\/p>\n
The government says he returned home on Feb. 18 and has been confined to Caracas’ military hospital since.<\/p>\n
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