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 Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said in a videotaped message to his people he is being treated for cancer in Cuba, international media outlets write.

“Bloomberg” writes doctors detected a tumor during an emergency operation this month that had been shrouded in mystery. Chavez said he was recovering favorably after doctors removed the tumor in a second, previously undisclosed operation since arriving to Cuba on June 8. The self-declared 21st century socialist revolutionary gave no date for his return, saying only that his treatment “can’t be rushed.”

“I feel like I’m emerging from a dark abyss and beginning the climb back,” said a thinner-looking Chavez, standing behind a podium flanked by a Venezuelan flag and portrait of his hero, 19th century South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar.