Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who was hospitalized from December 10 to Cuba for a fourth operation of cancer, is better, said Tuesday the Minister of Science and Technology Arreaza Jorge, who is also his son. Hugo Chávez "getting better day by day, it is increasingly involved in his duties (presidential) day after day," he said in an interview granted to the channel VTV from Cuba. "It gives instructions with more energy than a dynamo," he said after meeting with the father of his wife, who has not appeared in public since his hospitalization in Havana. President Chávez has the "fullness" of its intellectual resources, he said.
Last Saturday, the Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas had reported that President Chávez had overcome respiratory infection he suffered after his fourth operation and could be returned to Caracas "within weeks". "The respiratory infection has been overcome, although still persists a certain level of respiratory failure that is treated adequately" to the hospital in Havana, Cuba, where Hugo Chávez has been made, said the Minister press. Hugo Chávez was unable to attend the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean (Celac) earlier this week in Santiago. Its vice-president Nicolas Maduro was read on Monday signed message from the hand of President Chávez. Sunday, the Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, accused the government of "blatantly lie" to the president's health, age 58, in power for 14 years.