Chavez?s cancer highlights close partnership with Castro

Something wasn?t quite right, Hugo Chavez recounted. And the Venezuelan president?s mentor, 84-year-old Fidel Castro, noticed straight away.

?What?s wrong with you?? Castro asked. The Cuban leader urged Chavez to stand up and looked him over with what the Venezuelan populist called Castro?s ?eagle eyes.? ?Where?s the pain??

Castro then ?began to question me, like a father questions a son,? Chavez said in his account of their meeting in Havana last month; he said he ?confessed? his ailments as if he were Castro?s patient.

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