Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s admission that he will undergo new cancer surgery raises a whole set of new questions about the viability of his narcissist-Leninist “revolution” both at home and throughout Latin America.
Many of us who thought that Chávez would win the Oct 7 elections thanks to a combination of a massive use of state resources to buy votes, a virtual monopoly of the air-waves and intimidation of opposition voters, will have to rethink our forecasts. Chávez may still win, but it’s not that sure any more.
Chávez’s admission that his cancer
