President, who has cancer in pelvic region, has not been seen in public for months, but 58% believe he will recoverHugo Chávez is still fighting for his life, said the country's vice-president on Thursday night, yet a recent poll says nearly three in five Venezuelans believe their president will return to power.Nicolas Maduro, Chávez's presumed successor, said on television that his boss "is battling there for his health, for his life, and we're accompanying him".The vice-president had characterised Chávez's condition similarly on 20 December, saying the president "is fighting a great battle … for his life, for his health".Chávez has not spoken nor been seen in public since before his fourth operation in Cuba on 11 December for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area.The government says he has been breathing with the help of a tracheal tube after surviving a serious respiratory infection.
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