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Zorro (3,792 posts) Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer poisoning accusation Source: ReutersVenezuela will set up a formal inquiry into claims that deceased President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said. Foes of the government view the accusation as a typical Chavez-style conspiracy theory intended to feed fears of "imperialist" threats to Venezuela's socialist system and distract people from daily problems. Acting President Nicolas Maduro vowed to open an investigation into the claims, first raised by Chavez after he was diagnosed with the disease in 2011. "We will seek the truth," Maduro told regional TV network Telesur. "We have the intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark forces that wanted him out of the way."Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-probe-chavez-cancer-poisoning-accusation-010128851.html
msongs (29,774 posts) 1. sounds like a foregone conclusion is at hand nt
Drale (7,074 posts) 2. The paranoia is sickeningI hope the government doesn't lose its mind now and fall into civil war if Hugo's officials try to take power.
geek tragedy (22,911 posts) 5. Just like Maduro's BFF Ahmadinejad investigated the Holocaust.This is crazy talk, as anyone familiar with cancer or medical science in general will tell you.
Duer 157099 (16,066 posts) 10. Without taking a position on this particular situationare you suggesting that people who are familiar with medicine/science believe that you cannot transmit cancer? Because scientists know very well how to give cancer to laboratory animals. How do you think it gets studied?
Archae (25,637 posts) 6. Reminds me of that "Arafat was poisoned" so-called "investigation."Long on accusations, facts are nonexistent.
mikeysnot (1,348 posts) 7. happened before...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/world/europe/25spycnd.html?_r=0 Radiation Poisoning Killed Ex-Russian Spy By ALAN COWELL Published: November 24, 2006 LONDON, Nov. 24 — The British authorities said today that Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former Russian K.G.B. officer and foe of the Kremlin, died of radiation poisoning here in what a senior official called “an unprecedented event.†Police said radioactive traces were found at three London locations, underscoring the highly unusual nature of the whole episode, which began when Mr. Litvinenko first complained of feeling unwell three weeks ago.
geek tragedy (22,913 posts) 8. That wasn't cancer.Citing Litvinenko for the proposition that you can poison someone with cancer to assassinate them is like saying that the Kennedy assassination is proof that Chavez may have been shot by a phaser weapon as shown in Star Trek.
cstanleytech (5,100 posts) 9. Chavez died from cancer and not from radiation poisoning though.I wont say its 100% impossible it wasnt caused though because because there is a chance it could have been but to put it into perspective there is also a chance I might just win the powerball jackpot tonight, not very likely I will but there "is" a chance.
Drale (7,074 posts)2. The paranoia is sickening
