Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez in a coma ‘only kept alive by life support’ after cancer surgery

Should he go, look for his politicized favorite, Nicolas Maduro, to take the helm.

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’. Continue reading