Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on life support after cancer surgery

[Chris_]

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is in an induced coma being kept alive by life support following complications during cancer surgery, it was claimed today.

Sources at the hospital in Cuba where he is being treated told a Spanish newspaper he was showing 'very weak' vital signs, adding that doctors could decide to switch off the machines 'at any moment'.

With rumours swirling that Chavez had taken a turn for the worse, Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro said the ailing president's condition remains 'delicate' three weeks after his cancer surgery.

He did not provide further information about the president's condition and told Venezuelan's to  ignore speculation about his health.

Daily Mail

[Chris_]

Good riddance.

[ColonelCarrots]

He needs that Obamacare, a phone, and a get well soon card from Barry.

[wasp69]

*May God forgive me*

Good!  I hope you are locked in your mind and in screaming pain, you ****ing tyrant!  Just think, Hugo, you now have Hell to look forward to.

The world will be a better place when this shitbag assumes room temperature.

[Gina]

Hurry up and die already. 

[Mike220]

I'll have to pick up a bottle of bubbly to celebrate the momentous occasion, not to mention the wailing that will follow from the DUmp.

Hey, is it too late to add Yugo to the dead pool?

[Chris_]

Hey, is it too late to add Yugo to the dead pool?

The judges that count the votes usually don't condone cheating.

[Dori]

Hey, is it too late to add Yugo to the dead pool?

Hold off....remember when they had Castro on death watch like three time?

These dictators seem to have nine lives.

[IassaFTots]

I'll have to pick up a bottle of bubbly to celebrate the momentous occasion, not to mention the wailing that will follow from the DUmp.

Hey, is it too late to add Yugo to the dead pool?

I think someone already did.  

[Mike220]

The judges that count the votes usually don't condone cheating.

That implies they have a price.

[CG6468]

Not life support. Death support.

[Rufus2010]

Does Poor Stupid Beth (EFerarri) already have a candlelight vigil set?
 

Good riddance to that POS.

[NHSparky]

I think I took him in the first round.  Oh, goody!

[A7X_foREVer]

Good riddance to bad rubbish

[JohnnyReb]

Nothing could be finer than to be on life support in Cuba.......eh MM?

[Eupher]

Well, assuming this communist expires, what's interesting is who might assume power in Venezuela.

There's this:

But while the president's allies so far appear united, analysts have speculated that differences might emerge between factions led by Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's chosen successor and vice president, and Diosdado Cabello, the president of the National Assembly, who is thought to wield power within the military and who would be in line to temporarily assume the presidency until a new election can be held.

Cabello has dismissed rumors of any discord within the socialist party and issued a Twitter message on Wednesday asserting "the unbreakable will of revolutionary unity."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/03/potential-disputes-brewing-ahead-chavez-inauguration-if-venezuela-leader-too/#ixzz2GwB6BjW9

Maduro's only been veep since October, so he's not been around long. According to this communist's Wiki article, he's a former bus driver and prior to being "selected" as Chavez's veep, was the Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2006, and while that's 'being around', in a dictatorship like Venezuela's that's tantamount to saying Maduro's been in a coma for the past 7 years.

Maduro has no college education of any type, which makes him ideal to take over from Chavez when the bastard finally croaks.  

Cabello is a much more interesting character. Slightly younger than Maduro, Cabello has a grad degree in engineering and also is a hard-line communist, having taken part in at least two coup d'états, the first of which earned him a two-year jail term. He's thrown in his lot with Chavez, of course, but despite that, might stand in the way to Cabello's actual assumption of power.

Most dictators/orchestra conductors pick successors who are ever slightly inferior. It's all about the legacy, you know....

[Karin]

Someone else who will be in deep mourning is that execrable The Magistrate.  In his eyes, Yugo could do no wrong, and he picks nasty fights with those who second guess that. 

Die already, Hugo. 

[miskie]

The way this article is worded, I get the feeling he is already dead. They are just breaking the news slowly to create the illusion of order to prevent uprisings.

[Rufus2010]

We can give them 0bama!

[Mr Mannn]

The Left is mourning:
Sean Penn is heartbroken...Cindy Sheehan is likely flying to Hugo's side right now.
Barry O is golfing

[A7X_foREVer]

The way this article is worded, I get the feeling he is already dead. They are just breaking the news slowly to create the illusion of order to prevent uprisings.

No such luck I bet

[sybilll]

The way this article is worded, I get the feeling he is already dead. They are just breaking the news slowly to create the illusion of order to prevent uprisings.

I read it the same way.  The Chavez regime is also trying to manipulate their goal to stay in power, and it will happen.  Nothing resembling Democracy will replace him.  And whilst I am not a grave dancer, none of my tears will be shed over his express lane travel to hell. 

[SaintLouieWoman]

They'll probably pull the plug when it no longer suits their purpose for him to stay alive. I think I read something about the timing of his death. He might have to stick around a bit as there are 2 contenders for his spot.