CNN: Someone, Venezuelan government officials said, may have deliberately infected him with cancer.
Critics dismissed the accusation — first floated by then-Vice President Nicolas Maduro on March 5 — as an eleventh-hour attempt to distract Venezuelans and drum up popular support as leaders prepared to announce Chavez’s death.
But Maduro revived the issue this week, announcing that planning was in the works for a commission of “the world’s best scientists” to investigate whether Chavez had been poisoned… (more)
