More than a year before his death, Chávez said it was possible that the US caused the cancer he had been diagnosed with. And not just in regard to him, but all the leftist Latin American leaders who have been diagnosed: Cristina Fernández of Argentina, former President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“It’s very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to us in Latin America,” he said during a military speech in December 2011. “Would it be so strange that they’ve invented technology to spread cancer, and we won’t know about it for 50 years?”
