ESSAY (March 19, 2012) by Jorge Castaneda
Venezuela’s influential President could lose re-election if voters believe he is dying. Although the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez underwent cancer surgery in Cuba, he is campaigning for the upcoming presidential election. We do not know what sort of cancer he is suffering from, but we do now know it is grave and recurrent. If he is seriously ill, the electorate may not believe he is capable of governing for another six years. This matters for the following three reasons: (1) Chaves’s role in relation to Cuba is crucial for Cuba because Cuba depends on Venezuelan oil and subsidies. (2) Chaves’s departure from the Latin American political scene would weaken pro-Chavez governments like Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. (3) If Chavez is no longer president, Cuba, Iran, and Syria will lose a valuable and irreplaceable ally. (134 words)
Venezuela’s influential President could lose re-election if voters believe he is dying. Although the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez underwent cancer surgery in Cuba, he is campaigning for the upcoming presidential election. We do not know what sort of cancer he is suffering from, but we do now know it is grave and recurrent. If he is seriously ill, the electorate may not believe he is capable of governing for another six years. This matters for the following three reasons: (1) Chaves’s role in relation to Cuba is crucial for Cuba because Cuba depends on Venezuelan oil and subsidies. (2) Chaves’s departure from the Latin American political scene would weaken pro-Chavez governments like Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. (3) If Chavez is no longer president, Cuba, Iran, and Syria will lose a valuable and irreplaceable ally. (134 words)
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