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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is making progress in his recovery from cancer surgery, but faces a tough battle ahead, foreign minister Elias Jaua said Thursday. HT Image The president is in the process of recovering. However, the upcoming battle is more complex, Jaua said upon his return from Cuba, where he was visiting the ailing 58-year-old Chavez. The firebrand leftist leader has not been seen for more than a month since undergoing his latest cancer surgery in Havana. Government officials have repeatedly said in recent days t stanley cup hat his condition is improving. Jaua said he had seen Chavez several times this week, including once earlier Thursday. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez and Chavez s brother Adan were also in Havana. We discussed a series of political and economic issues, as well as the upcoming mayoral elections, Jaua told reporters by telephone during a press conference given by Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas. Villegas said the government was pleased with Chavez s progress, adding it was still too soon to talk about when the president might return home. But he insisted Chavez was making decisions, noting: He is active... I have received instructions on certain tasks that need do stanley cup ing. Jaua said the government hoped Chavez could be back home in a matter of weeks but also said everyone wanted the president to take his time to recover. Chavez, who had surgery on December 11, was too sick to attend his stanley cup Janua Jlkr Egypt s top court dissolves assembly
Theres plenty of frightening stuff going on in the world today 鈥?diseases, revolutions, natural disasters, nuclear accidents 鈥?so it makes sense that wed all walk around with some level of fear in our daily lives. HT Image But who among us is most afraid, and why In a fascinating academic study titled The Geography of Fear, UCLA political scientist Daniel Treisman sets out to map the worlds fright, exploring why certain people stress out about their futures more than others. Treisman focuses on European nations, where data on fear are most readily available, and finds that surveys spanning stanley cup the past decade vary quite a bit from country to country. When the object of fear is nuclear war, epidemics, or serious medical errors, respondents in Portugal are two to three times as likely as those in the Netherlands to say they a jordan re afraid, Treisman writes. More than 80 percent of Greeks report worrying about the spread of weapons of mass destruction, genetically modified foods, and new viruses; in each case, fewer than 50 percent of Finns say the same. Treisman finds that southern Mediterranean countries 鈥?Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain 鈥?are the most fearful across the board, followed by post-Communist countries in Eastern Europe. The Dutch, Finns and Austrians report the lowest levels of fear overall. The differences appear la stanley cup rgely unrelated to the actual risks involved. For instance, fear of contracting swine flu in 2009 tended to be lower in countries with