CARACAS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and won re-election this month, acknowledged that campaigning while in recovery cost him votes. Chavez on Saturday said in a meeting shown on state television VTV that after radiation therapy, he had only done “10 percent” of…
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