Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is undergoing “tough and complex” alternative medical treatment in Cuba, his handpicked successor Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday.
“Our comandante is undergoing additional treatments,” Maduro told state-owned VTV television after returning from a previously unannounced visit to Cuba to check up on the ailing president.
“The treatments are extremely tough and complex.”
Declining to provide details about the therapy, the vice president insisted that Chavez was facing his medical travails with a “fighting spirit” despite more than two months of absence from the public eye.
Maduro said Chavez’s brother Adan accompanied him on his trip to Havana, and that he met there with other relatives of the president, as well as his medical team.
National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello was due to visit Chavez in Cuba in the coming days, according to Maduro.