CNN – by Catherine E. Shoichet
The dark claim on the day Hugo Chavez died took many by surprise.
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. Continue reading “Scientists will study possible Chavez poisoning, Venezuelan leader says”