Minister: Chavez may not be well by inauguration
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and IAN JAMESBy FABIOLA SANCHEZ and IAN JAMES, Associated Press?
?A man gets his hair cut at a street barbershop decorated with a images of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in downtown Caracas,Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Chavez was preparing to undergo a new cancer surgery on Tuesday in Cuba, his government said, after his illness reappeared despite a year and a half of surgeries and treatments. The Venezuelan president announced on Saturday that he needed to undergo a fourth cancer-related surgery after tests showed that "some malignant cells" had reappeared in the same area in his pelvic region where tumors were previously removed. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A man gets his hair cut at a street barbershop decorated with a images of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in downtown Caracas,Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Chavez was preparing to undergo a new cancer surgery on Tuesday in Cuba, his government said, after his illness reappeared despite a year and a half of surgeries and treatments. The Venezuelan president announced on Saturday that he needed to undergo a fourth cancer-related surgery after tests showed that "some malignant cells" had reappeared in the same area in his pelvic region where tumors were previously removed. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro, center, addresses the nation on live television flanked by Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, left, and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Maduro said that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will face a "complex and hard" process after undergoing his fourth cancer-related operation in Cuba on Tuesday. Over the weekend, Chavez named Maduro as his chosen political heir. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office, Efrain Gonzalez)
A person holds up images of Venezuela's President Hugo, right, and Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar as people gather to pray for Chavez at Simon Bolivar square in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Doctors began operating on Chavez in Cuba, his government said, after his cancer reappeared despite a year and a half of surgeries and treatments. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A student holds her teacher's hand at the start of the school day at the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela school where a poster of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hangs on the wall in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Chavez was recovering in Cuba on Tuesday after an operation targeting an aggressive cancer that has defied multiple treatments and has prompted the socialist leader to name a political successor. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XFLL111.- In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's Vice-President Nicolas Maduro speaks for Venezuelan Television at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Maduro said Chavez was recovering in Cuba after an operation targeting an aggressive cancer that has defied multiple treatments. The operation was "complex" but was completed "correctly and successfully," he said. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office, Francisco Batista)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? Venezuela's information minister is acknowledging that ailing President Hugo Chavez may not be well enough after cancer surgery in Cuba to return in time for his Jan. 10 inauguration.
Minister Ernesto Villegas says in a Twitter post that if Chavez isn't back in time for his swearing-in for a new six-year term "our people should be prepared to understand it."
The posting says Venezuelans should see any delay the same way as "when we have a sick father, in a delicate situation after four surgeries in a year and a half."
Vice President Nicolas Maduro looked grim earlier in the day when he warned Venezuelans that Chavez faces a "complex and hard" process after his fourth cancer-related operation in Cuba.
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