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Caracas (AFP / Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will try to win another six-year periods in the elections next year despite recovering from cancer surgery, he said in an interview with the newspaper Correo del Orinoco country of issue Sunday.

56 years of socialist leader was returned to Venezuela on Saturday night, a week after leaving Caracas for cancer chemotherapy in Cuba.

He said there were no malignant cells were found and that he arrived in the country with better health than when he left.

Venezuela's President return home earlier than expected after undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer in Cuba.

State TV broadcast directly capture the arrival of 56-year-old Socialist leader was in Caracas, a week after he left the capital for treatment on the Caribbean island as a guest of friend and mentor, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

"This is a day of joy for me ... I came back with a better condition than I left, thanks to the Lord," he said in a brief speech at the airport in the capital Maiquetia.

He reiterated that the doctors have found malignant cells in her body, but he has been undergoing chemotherapy as a precaution and part of the "process of Annihilation."


He said on Friday, he prepared the second round of chemotherapy, so it is not clear whether he planned to return to Cuba for treatment in a few days or weeks.

Chavez announced that he underwent surgery in Havana last month to remove a baseball-sized cancerous tumor, which questioned his fitness to run for re-election in presidential elections next year, the OPEC member country with a population of 29 million people.

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