CARACAS, Venezuela —Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in the Cuban capital of Havana for treatment to aid his recovery from cancer, seven weeks after winning re-election in a campaign in which he told voters he was “totally free" of the disease.
The self-proclaimed socialist, who cut back public appearances after earning a third six-year term in October, Tuesday sought permission from Congress to leave Venezuela and travel to the Communist island for a seventh time this year to undergo hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The arrival of Chavez, who has undergone three surgeries to remove two tumors since June 2011, was reported by the Cuban state newspaper Juventud Rebelde on its website.
