Hugo Chavez appoints successor and returns to Cuba for surgery again

Hugo Chavez is sincere to his country in a message to the nation late in the night: "Unfortunately the presence emerged in the same area of new malignant cells ... It is absolutely imperative "a new surgery, even" doctors recommended to be done yesterday." The president will return urgently to Cuba in the coming hours, after asking permission from the Assembly, to be well operated by the fourth time the cancer was diagnosed last year and half . But first, the revolutionary leader, with gesture sorry, asked his people that if they become disabled, support your vice Nicolás Maduro in new elections. "If I submit some reason unfit to continue as head of the presidency, Maduro should end " , stated the Bolivarian leader. "My firm opinion, absolute, total, irrevocable is that in that scenario, you elect Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela." Thus, Chavez terminated the battle of succession, in the strongest terms. The new Chavez relapse occurs in the worst possible time, a week of momentous elections for governor and when only one month before the presidential inauguration , in what would be his fourth term at the head of the country. The event is scheduled on January 10. Failure to arrive on time Chávez, President of the Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, would be forced to call new elections. "Unity, unity, unity!" Cried the head of state after glossing the virtues of his number two. "With the help of God we will be victorious and forth, clinging to the faith to give you good news in the coming days," he said Chavez, who did not want to hide the seriousness of the new "battle" to facing. "We must ensure the march victorious in the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan road to socialism and its broad freedoms, "he said. The president insisted on several occasions that when starting the election campaign he was recovered, but it was at the end, after the efforts, when they showed "swelling and pain, so they reduced my public appearances."Chavez returned to Cuba last Friday, after spending nine days performing the last tests have confirmed that a new tumor life threatening.