text: In a letter, Venezuelan physicians argued that the information provided by official spokesmen "lacks the required medical professional accuracy to be reliable, complete, precise and qualified"
  
  The Venezuelan Academy of Medicine gave the Supreme Tribunal of Justice a list of medical professionals who are "highly qualified" to perform a medical evaluation of President Hugo Chávez, who has been in Cuba for the last 25 days after undergoing his fourth surgery for cancer.
  
  In a letter, the Venezuelan physicians argued that the information provided by official spokesmen "lacks the required medical professional accuracy to be reliable, complete, precise and qualified." In their view, such situation has resulted in "anxiety, restlessness and uncertainty in Venezuelan society."
  
  "We are only six days ahead of the end of Hugo Chavez's presidential term and the beginning of a new period. Nobody knows whether he is fully fit to take power and perform his duties. For these reasons and in order to provide the assistance and experience of the institutions we represent, and should it be necessary to enforce the provisions and regulations of Article 233 of the Constitution, which set forth the declaration of the complete absence of the President due to sickness and the appointment of a medical board, we offer the Supreme Tribunal of Justice a list of Venezuelan medical professionals, who are highly qualified experts in the fields related to the complex conditions of the President of the Republic," read the letter.
  
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  Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brazil on March 13 to demand the ouster of embattled President Dilma Rousseff, carrying banners expressing anger at bribery scandals and economic woes. A banner read "We don't want a new Venezuela in Brazil."