Caracas. - President Hugo Chavez denied east Thursday that is suffering of cancer and attributed the rumors to the opposition.

“The skinny ones (opposition) want to kill to me, now walk saying that I have cancer. That is what they want”, said in a message to the country transmitted in chain of radio and television during the graduation of medical surgeons specialized in general medicine and foreign doctors with revalidations of its titles.

Chávez briefly talked about to commentaries published in the press and rumors that circulated in Internet on their supposed disease, which in the last multiplied days during one prolonged absence hers of the public scene. (DPA)