Idiotic statists: Venezuala cancels New Years for ailing leader Hugo Chavez

VENEZUELA called off public New Year's Eve festivities on Monday and social media sizzled with worry after the government said cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez had taken a turn for the worse.

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The streets of Caracas were quiet as front page headlines relayed that Mr Chavez had developed "new complications" from a respiratory infection after undergoing his fourth cancer-related surgery, on December 11 in Havana.

His vice president and political heir, Nicolas Maduro, broke the news from Havana on Sunday night, saying the condition of the firebrand leader was delicate and that he faced an uphill battle.

Mr Chavez, the face of the Latin American left for more than a decade and a fierce critic of what he calls US imperialism, has been in power since 1999 in Venezuela, an OPEC member that sits on top of the world's largest proven oil reserves. He won a new six-year term in October elections.

For many Venezuelans, a holiday season without their ubiquitous comandante just wasn't the same.

"We have never had a Christmas like this. Only God knows what will happen with him and with us," said 70-year-old retiree Miguel Enrique as he prepared to attend Mass.

Authorities canceled a New Year's eve concert in a downtown plaza and Information Minister Ernesto Villegas urged families "to ring in the New Year at home, praying and expressing hope for the health" of Mr Chavez.

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Idiotic statists: Venezuala cancels New Years for ailing leader Hugo Chavez

Idiotic statists: Venezuala cancels New Years for ailing leader Hugo Chavez

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