Don’t Believe Report About Hugo Chávez’s Death Just Yet

By Adam Clark Estes, The Atlantic

On Wednesday night, one of the more obscure outposts of the CNN empire reported that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had died, citing a pretty sketchy Panamanian source named Guillermo Cochez. CNN Chile reported quite bluntly: “Hugo Chávez is dead.” The news itself, if true, is not unbelievable. The once bombastic politician has been struggling with cancer for sometime now and has largely been out of the public eye for months. Chávez couldn’t even make it to his own inauguration. Less than a week ago the Venezuelan government broke the bad news that Chávez was not improving. The 58-year-old has been having breathing problems after returning from Cuba, where he’s been receiving medial treatment there, for the third time. Chavez is really sick, and everybody knows it.

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