Many people, who saw him last Saturday and Sunday on the obligatory simultaneous broadcasts, still are suspicious about his ailment.
Note that chemotherapy and similar treatments against cancer show body swelling or loss of weight. Each individual body reacts in a different way. However, one of his phrases in arriving at Maiquetía airport are worth quoting: "Fidel told me yesterday: 'Good for you to return, but don't overindulge in passion. Don't you think that everything is all right, and may people don't believe it.'" Having said that on Saturday, on Sunday, during the ceremony on the occasion of Libertador Simón Bolívar's anniversary, he delved into the subject matter and specified that Fidel Castro had told him that week in Havana that the tests showed no "new" malignant cells anywhere in his body." He told the story as follows: "After being subject to imaging studies (...) yesterday evening Fidel paid a call on me and told me three words: 'You have nothing.' No malignant cell was found anywhere, in any organ that could have slipped off the site where the tumor was; nor was any malignant cell found where the tumor was." No details were given on the site of the cancerous tumor removed in June, in Cuba. He had already provided such details, in their context, upon his arrival in Venezuela. "Cancer is not spreading," he said on that occasion