President surpised by top-level visitor
Sunday 30 December 2012
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EmailVenezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro made a surprise visit to his superior Hugo Chavez at the weekend.
President Chavez travelled to Havana to undergo his fourth round of cancer-related surgery on December 11.
The popular leftist, whose Bolivarian movement has dominated party politics in the Latin American country since 1999, called on his supporters to get behind Mr Maduro if another election is triggered by his failure to take up his office after re-election.
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