Ernesto Villegas shows the first images of Hugo Chavez

The Venezuelan Information Minister, Ernesto Villegas, read a statement about the health of his country’s leader, Hugo Chavez, and said he “is currently in a strong treatment. The patient cooperates with the treatment closely with the medical team.”

Hugo Chavez

After two months of intensive care in a complicated postoperative, Chavez is alert and in constant communication with his administration. “The respiratory infection has been controlled but there is a degree of failure. Given the circumstances, currently President Chavez can breath through a tracheal cannula,” said Villegas.

Hugo Chavez with his daughters reading the Granma newspaper

The images published of the Venezuelan president serve to demonstrate that Hugo Chavez is alive and even reading the Cuban newspaper Granma.