Doctors discovered the lymphoma following a biopsy on a gland they had removed from his groin during minor surgery in August 2010. The malignant tumour is treatable with chemo. Other South American politicians who have been struck by the disease include Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff, her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Fernando Lugo, president of Paraguay. Mr Chavez received treatment in Cuba earlier this year for an unknown cancer, and now claims to be cured. In a speech made to the military yesterday and broadcast on television, he said that he hoped to call a summit of leaders who had survived cancer. 'Would it be so strange that they’ve invented technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?' 'It’s very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America,' Mr Chavez said. He also warned his allies Evo Morales, of Bolivia, and Ecuador's Rafael Correa that they should watch out for attempts to bring them down. 'Evo, take care of yourself - Correa, be careful, we just don’t know,' he joked.
Mr Morales said earlier this year that he was nervous about attending a UN summit in New York in case the U.S. government should plant drugs on his plane in an attempt to discredit him. Mr Chavez said that he had been speaking to Mr Castro, who is believed to have been a CIA target for many years after he took power in Cuba in 1959.
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