Chavez ponders US link to cancer cases

29 Dec 2011, 9:17 am   -   Source: AAP
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Chavez said he wasn't accusing the US and doesn't have any proof. (Getty)

Chavez said he wasn't accusing the US and doesn't have any proof. (Getty)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is wondering if the US has something to do with a rash of cancer cases among Latin American leaders.

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A rash of cancer cases among Latin American leaders has Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wondering if the US might have found a way to induce the illness.

Chavez has long questioned whether the US government could be plotting to oust him, but his latest remarks went far beyond any such theories.

The leftist leader referred to the cancer diagnosis of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, and noted that he and the leaders of Brazil and Paraguay have also struggled with the illness recently.

Chavez called it very strange.

He said he wasn't accusing the US and doesn't have any proof.

But he asked: "Would it be strange if they had developed a technology to induce cancer and no one knew it?"

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CIA covert actions

RON - from melbourne, 5 months ago

The US Senate Committee to Study Intelligence Activities, also known as the Church Committee, found the CIA as a matter of course carried out numerous illegal assassination attempts on heads of state and others they saw as a threat to US interests. The attempts on Fidel Castro are the most well known. They included exploding cigars and various forms of poisoning. They also used tax payers money to pay the Mafia to rub him out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

US secrets

Donnie - from Eastwood, 5 months ago

Who can trust those Americans they are capable of anything and have been proven in the past of experimenting on humans ,EG: just look at the Nuclear test in Hiroshima the first US teams to go in after this war crime were data gathering clip board scientists

Chavez

Mike - from Sydney, 5 months ago

Nevertheless he has one way ticket to see his beloved friends Gaddafi and Kim Joung-Ill

USSA

Cameron - from Darwin, 5 months ago

The USA has been meddling in South American affairs for decades, most notably with several coups replacing democratically elected leaders with dictators. It would not at all surprise me if they where behind this.

Any right wing leaders have cancer?

Duncan - from Canberra ACT, 5 months ago

Cancer is on the rise world wide. I would be skeptical of Mr Chavez claims except if an overwhelming number of left wing socially progressive leaders had cancer but not the right wing leaders. And Chavez is a democratically elected leader. Still I won't put it past the US to do dirty work like this if it were true.

US Covert Programs Exposed

Concerned - from aust, 5 months ago

Recently lots of US covert operations have been leaked, such as vaccinations having cancer causing virus in them, the gardasil vaccine has killed young girls, geoEngineering otherwise known as Chemtrails exposed. So I would tend to think that Mr Chavez is of right mind thinking the US would be capable of giving them cancer. Google these things and you will find ample information about the ops exposed. Or try wikileaks, shows how corrupt governments including US are.

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