The government of Venezuela said it will set up a formal inquiry into
suspicions that the late President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result
of poisoning by his enemies abroad.
Acting President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor has vowed to push through a serious investigation into the claim, which Chavez himself first raised after he was diagnosed with the disease in 2011.
Speaking on a regional TV network on Monday, Maduro said: “We will seek the truth. We have the intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark forces that wanted him out of the way.'”
Foreign scientists will be invited to join a government commission, the OPEC nation's acting leader said.
Maduro, 50, a former bus driver, is running as the government's candidate in the April 14 presidential election triggered by Chavez's death last week.
Opposing him in the presidential election will be Democratic Unity coalition candidate Henrique Capriles, 40, who lost in a presidential vote to Chavez last year.
The former President was diagnosed with cancer in his pelvic region in June 2011 and underwent four surgeries in Cuba before dying of what sources said was metastasis in the lungs. Maduro said it was too early to specifically point a finger over 58-year-old Chavez's cancer.
Maduro who leads Capriles with more than 10 percentage points in opinion polls said: “He (Chavez) had a cancer that broke all norms. Everything seems to indicate that they affected his health using the most advanced techniques ... He had that intuition from the beginning.”
Venezuela boasts the world's largest oil reserves. Polls from before Chavez's death gave.
Meanwhile, in a tit-for-tat retaliation on Monday, the United States expelled two Venezuelan.
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Acting President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor has vowed to push through a serious investigation into the claim, which Chavez himself first raised after he was diagnosed with the disease in 2011.
Speaking on a regional TV network on Monday, Maduro said: “We will seek the truth. We have the intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark forces that wanted him out of the way.'”
Foreign scientists will be invited to join a government commission, the OPEC nation's acting leader said.
Maduro, 50, a former bus driver, is running as the government's candidate in the April 14 presidential election triggered by Chavez's death last week.
Opposing him in the presidential election will be Democratic Unity coalition candidate Henrique Capriles, 40, who lost in a presidential vote to Chavez last year.
The former President was diagnosed with cancer in his pelvic region in June 2011 and underwent four surgeries in Cuba before dying of what sources said was metastasis in the lungs. Maduro said it was too early to specifically point a finger over 58-year-old Chavez's cancer.
Maduro who leads Capriles with more than 10 percentage points in opinion polls said: “He (Chavez) had a cancer that broke all norms. Everything seems to indicate that they affected his health using the most advanced techniques ... He had that intuition from the beginning.”
Venezuela boasts the world's largest oil reserves. Polls from before Chavez's death gave.
Meanwhile, in a tit-for-tat retaliation on Monday, the United States expelled two Venezuelan.
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