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| Venezuela President Chavez back to Cuba for treatment | Venezuela President Chavez back to Cuba for treatment |
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| Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will have further medical treatment in Cuba, where he had months of cancer therapy. | |
| Mr Chavez, who was re-elected in October, is due to be sworn in for a third term in January. | Mr Chavez, who was re-elected in October, is due to be sworn in for a third term in January. |
| In a letter to the National Assembly, Mr Chavez said he needed further therapy to recover from this year's "tough electoral campaign". | |
| In May he declared himself free of cancer. There is no indication in his letter that the cancer has returned. | |
| Mr Chavez, 58, was first diagnosed with an undisclosed cancer in 2011. | |
| He has since had repeated surgery in Cuba, but finished his treatment there earlier this year. | He has since had repeated surgery in Cuba, but finished his treatment there earlier this year. |
| In his letter to the National Assembly, Mr Chavez says he is returning to Havana following medical advice. | |
| "Six months after I had the last session of radiotherapy, I have been advised to begin a new special treatment, with several sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and physiotherapy," says the letter. | |
| The treatment is aimed at continuing to "consolidate recent health improvements," he adds. | |
| The left-wing president was first elected in 1998. | |
| During the electoral campaign, he dismissed rumours that he had not been cured of his cancer, and vowed to serve out his six-year term. |