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Doctor tells Chavez to stop talking
Publish Date: Tuesday,3 March, 2009, at 12:39 PM Doha Time
Chavez, whose speeches often stretch five hours or more, has been advised
his doctor to
Chavez, whose speeches often stretch five hours or more, has been advised his
doctor to stay quiet for three days
It's something few people can tell Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: stop
talking.
Chavez, whose speeches often stretch five hours or more, said on Sunday his
doctor told him to stay quiet for three days to help a sore throat. "I am a
little affected by the intensive, continuous and permanent use of this cannon
I've got here and the doctor has told me not to talk," Chavez said to audience
laughter.
Chavez immediately responded that silence was not the best medicine for him.
"I said 'listen friend, do what you can but how am I going to follow this
treatment?' Three days without talking? I lasted one, not even one," Chavez
said at the start of a television show he presents every week.
Spain's King Juan Carlos famously tried to silence Chavez, sparking a
diplomatic incident when he told the Venezuelan leader to "shut up" during a
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