Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez postpones summit amid health concerns
The mystery surrounding the medical condition of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez deepened with the postponement of a major regional summit. - Chavez perhaps seemed to have lost some weight but was acting his usual animated self, raising the obvious question of why a summit still a week away had to be scrapped. The president "is in the midst of a strict process of recovery and medical treatment," the Venezuelan foreign ministry said in a statement on the postponement, without providing further details.