Chávez advised his foreign minister to ‘tread gingerly’

Hugo Chávez

President Hugo Chávez said he had asked his foreign minister to “tread gingerly” in responding to on Guyana’s submission of a claim to an extended continental shelf.

The Venezuelan press yesterday reported Chávez, who recently returned to Venezuela after receiving treatment for cancer in Cuba, as saying in a telephone interview with state television VTV on Monday night that he had asked the Foreign Ministry “to