Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was recovering Tuesday after surgery in Cuba to remove a lesion his doctors had feared was malignant, his Vice President was quoted as saying by UPI. Vice President Elias Jaua said Chavez's doctors removed the "entire lesion and surrounding tissue" from the 57-year-old President's pelvic region, The Miami Herald reported. A statement issued by the Venezuelan government said the operation had produced "a satisfactory result," the Los Angeles Times reported.
