Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that his cancer has been over after returning from medical checkup in Cuba following four cycles of chemotherapy.
He travelled to the island four months ago to for cancer surgery.
“Everything went perfectly. I got top marks, 20 out of 20,” he told reporters.
“I am free of illness,” Chavez said in an address to Venezuelans after arriving in the town of La Fria in western Venezuela.
He later made a pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine, Santo Cristo de la Grita, as a gesture of thanksgiving.
“The new Chavez is back … We will live!” he declared.
His return from Cuba was broadcast in a special transmission on Venezuelan television and radio stations.
The 57-year-old leader, who has been in power since 1999, says his illness will not stop him from standing for re-election next year, and winning.
Chavez has transformed Venezuela with sweeping nationalisations.
His reforms have made him popular with many poor people, but critics say he wants to install Cuban-style communism in Venezuela.
Last month, he denied US media reports that he had been rushed to hospital with kidney failure linked to his cancer treatment.
He has so far given no details of his illness and doctors warn that patients must generally wait at least two years after treatment before they can be considered out of danger.
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