CARACAS (Reuters) - Looking stronger after cancer treatment, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday he felt reborn, phoenix-like, on his 57th birthday, in a sign the socialist believes he is overcoming his illness.
"I've arrived at 57 being reborn, a new life, my eternal return," said Chavez, who opponents accuse of having messianic tendencies. In the past he triumphantly came back from a failed coup he led and a putsch that briefly drove him from power.
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