It was a typically controversial statement by Venezuela's socialist leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumor from his pelvis. But he stressed that he was not making any accusations, just thinking aloud.
"It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now ... I don't know. I'm just reflecting," he said in a televised speech to troops at a military base.
"But this is very, very, very strange ... it's a bit difficult to explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities."
Chavez, Fernandez, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have all been diagnosed recently with cancer. All of them are leftists.
TVNL Comment: In the documentary "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" discussed this issue. Jack Ruby's girlfriend claimed that the CIA actually had a method for doing this. The documentary that is sold now is missing the DVD with this information. An entire DVD was pulled due to pressure from Lyndon B. Johnson's family.