Venezuelan Pres to go to Cuba for full medical survey.

CARACAS, October 11 (Itar-Tass) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez
has made public his plans to go to Cuba by the end of the week for a full
medical survey there.
He said it during a telephone call to the studio of a local radio. He
said the survey is necessary for determining the presence or absence of
cancer cells in his organism.
Chavez, who is often called euphemistically 'the leader of the
Bolivarian revolution', said the Cuban doctors will do the survey with the
aid of the most advance scientific techniques.
This will be the fifth trip to Cuba for him. He had two surgeries
there in June and then visited the country thrice for courses of
chemotherapy.
"It's an improper time for dying now," Chavez said. "I must live to
fulfill the obligations I gave to the people and to win the next
presidential election."
He was elected Venezuela's President the first time in December 1998
in an election where he took part as a candidate nominated by Movimiento V
Repulbica /the Fifth Republic Movement/.
Chavez got 56% votes then. In subsequent years, the Venezuelans
adopted a new Constitution, and the early general elections were held in
the light of it in July 2000.
Chavez won the election again getting 60% votes. This marked a big
margin over his contender.
The next election took place in December 2006. Chavez ran in it as a
candidate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela that had been set up
by that time.
He got 7 million votes /almost 63%/.
The election of 2012 will be the fourth one for Chavez and he plans
winning it with no less than 60% votes. Considering the growth of the
country's population, this will mean 10 million votes in absolute terms
versus the previous seven million.
The most recent opinion polls show Chavez enjoys popular support
standing at a level of around 60%.