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Chavez reappears in public
Translated from Spanish by FreeTranslation.com with some cleanup by me. Hat tip to Babalu Blog.
Caracas.- The president of the Republic, Hugo Chävez, explained today in the Counsel of Ministers, transmitted live by the channel of the state, the motive of his absence of 24 hours that caused all types of hypothesis (NB: speculation?).

The president said that after seeing the volleyball match between Venezuela-Brazil, yesterday (May 29), he decided to travel to Barquisimeto to visit his daughter, Rosainés Chävez, age approximately seven years. "He has not passed anything, absolutely nothing" expressed President Chävez. "I took advantage of not doing "Hello President" (NB: !Alo President!, his weekly TV broadcast) and I went to see my girl", he said.

It explained that the reason of the suspension of the Sunday program "Hello President" was the match between Venezuela-Brazil in the world league of volleyball, that was played in the Polyhedron of Caracas.
I doubt that Hugo cancelled his weekly broadcast becasue volleyball is so important to the nation. In the comments section of the referring blog, speculation is that Chavez played possum -- set up a disappearance to smoke out those who might want him gone. Create some confusion and then ID everyone who moved against you. Dunno, but something is going on.

Posted by: Steve White 2005-05-31
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=120403