Sources told Spanish newspaper ABC that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is in an induced coma and being kept alive on life support in a Cuban hospital following emergency cancer surgery on December 10.
UPI has more details from the report:
Sources told ABC Chávez was breathing through mechanical ventilation and being fed intravenously and rectally, and Russian doctors treating him said his kidneys were failing.
The doctors were considering ending the life support, the newspaper said.
However, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro denied the report, saying that Chávez was in a conscious state.
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