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Chavez Suggest US Gave World Leaders Cancer

Secret cancer-causing technology could be at work, he speculates

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 29, 2011 12:46 AM CST | Updated Dec 29, 2011 5:51 AM CST

(Newser) – Argentina's Cristina Fernandez has become the latest Latin American leader to be diagnosed with cancer, prompting Hugo Chavez to wonder if the US is to blame. "Would it be strange if they had developed a technology to induce cancer, and for no one to know it?" pondered the Venezuelan leader, who was treated for cancer earlier this year. Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, and her predecessor, Lula da Silva, have also battled cancer in recent years.

Chavez said he didn't want to "make any reckless accusations," but he finds the number of cancer cases "very, very, very strange," CNN reports. Chavez noted that details of American studies in the late '40s when Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis have only recently surfaced, and wondered if details of a US cancer-causing plan would come to light in another 50 years. "I don't know," he said. "I'm just putting the thought out there."

Hugo Chavez speaks at a rally in Caracas after returning from cancer treatment in Cuba earlier this year. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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miamisun

Dec 29, 2011 6:49 PM CST

I am sure primitive tribes also think Americans have magical powers too

NoddaAndYou

Dec 29, 2011 5:02 PM CST

You just shut the hell up or we'll give you herpes, too. Or rather, Fascist_Jack, will give you the herpes. Go get 'em Jack! ^_^

Dave99

Dec 29, 2011 9:48 AM CST

Just cause america has a track record of running a murder incorporated doesn't mean we would ever do anythng bad. ___________________________________________ http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/07/24/quot-a-damned-murder-inc-quot/ clip - It was Lyndon Johnson who famously said shortly after he took office in 1963, "We had been operating a damned Murder Inc. in the Caribbean.”

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