Venezuela's vice-president, Nicolás Maduro, has told the country to ignore "enemy" rumours of president Hugo Chávez's imminent demise.
Maduro has been at Chávez's bedside in a Cuban hospital but was due to fly home to Caracas on Wednesday.
Maduro returns to a country gripped by uncertainty about the wellbeing of a leader who has dominated the political landscape since 1999, but has not been seen in public since he rushed to Havana for emergency cancer surgery three weeks ago .... http://www.guardian.co.uk
