Nicaragua Chavez Cancer
A person holds a flower during a mass in support of Venezuela�s President Hugo Chavez next to an image of him that reads in Spanish "The life" in Man...
A person holds a flower during a mass in support of Venezuela�s President Hugo Chavez next to an image of him that reads in Spanish "The life" in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday March, 1, 2012. Doctors successfully extracted a tumor from Chavez's pelvic region and he was stable and recovering in Cuba on Tuesday with family at his side, Venezuela's Vice President Elias Jaua said. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
APTOPIX Nicaragua Chavez Cancer
A woman holds a flower wrapped in a Venezuelan flag during mass in support of Venezuela�s President Hugo Chavez in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday March...
A woman holds a flower wrapped in a Venezuelan flag during mass in support of Venezuela�s President Hugo Chavez in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday March, 1, 2012. Doctors successfully extracted a tumor from Chavez's pelvic region and he was stable and recovering in Cuba on Tuesday with family at his side, Venezuela's Vice President Elias Jaua said. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba.
Chavez says doctors have put him on a special diet, and that he's taking daily walks and spending time with close relatives.
Chavez has been in Cuba since last Friday to have a growth removed in the same part of the pelvis where a larger, malignant tumor was extracted last year.
There has been no word on whether the new lesion is cancerous.
During a brief telephone call broadcast live on state television Friday, Chavez did not provide specific details of the surgery or the tumor that was removed.
