CARACAS (Reuters) - A healthy-sounding President Hugo Chavez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba on Monday to dispel rumours fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment at a hospital in Havana.
"It seems we will have to become accustomed to live with these rumours, because it is part of the laboratories of psychological war, of dirty war" the 57-year-old socialist leader said in the telephone call.
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