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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has questioned whether the US has developed a secret technology to give cancer to left-wing leaders in Latin America, the BBC reported.

Treated for cancer this year, Mr Chavez was speaking a day after it emerged that Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had thyroid cancer.

Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and her predecessor Lula da Silva have also had cancer.

Mr Chavez said the instances of cancer among Latin American leaders were "difficult to explain using the law of probabilities".（点击英国广播公司网站查看原文）

查韦斯疑美国密谋诱癌

       据英国广播公司报道，委内瑞拉总统雨果•查韦斯发表言论称，他怀疑美国开发了一种秘密技术，导致南美洲的几位左翼领导人患上癌症。

       查韦斯本人在今年接受了癌症治疗。在他发表上述言论前一天，阿根廷总统克里斯蒂娜•费尔南德斯•基什内尔也宣布患上了甲状腺癌。

       巴拉圭总统费尔南多•卢戈、巴西总统迪尔玛•罗塞夫以及前任总统卢拉•达席尔瓦也都患有癌症。

       查韦斯说，拉美领导人患癌症“很难用可能性规律来解释”。

(China.org.cn December 30, 2011)