The President of Venezuela's dependence on Cuban healthcare obviously failed him, because Hugo Chávez is dead.
In a July 16, 2011 New York Times article entitled "Chávez Puts His Trust in Castro for Care," Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, was quoted as saying "For Chávez, questions of trust, political loyalty and control trump all other considerations. Fidel is one of the few people in which Chávez has utter faith and trust. He is prepared to entrust his health to Fidel, even if he could get better treatment elsewhere."
Notwithstanding Chávez's "utter faith and trust" in Fidel Castro and the Cuban National Health System, the Venezuelan dictator has now officially assumed room temperature. America should pay heed, because if Hugo could speak from the grave it's likely he'd say that caution should be exercised before placing all your healthcare eggs in the wrong basket.
For political reasons and in order to maintain the type of secrecy propagandists require in order to retain power, Chávez chose La Habana's Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) and its incompetent doctors to treat his cancer. The hard truth is that according to some, the cancer that killed Chávez, had it been diagnosed correctly, was treatable.
The curious thing about all this is that Michael Moore's Cuba wasn't Chávez's only choice for healthcare. It is alleged that at a summit in Caracas, Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff told colleagues that Chávez would die as a "result of his excessive paranoia rather than as a consequence of his serious - yet treatable - cancer."
Rousseff should know; she herself was successfully treated for lymphatic cancer at the Sirio-Libanese Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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