![Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is welcomed with military honours at Caracas' Maiquetia international airport on March 16, 2012 after spending three weeks in Cuba where he underwent cancer surgery. Chavez had earlier announced his departure from Cuba in a message sent to microblogging site Twitter; "Good afternoon, good world! Right now we are departing from the Jose Marti International Airport [in Havana] Heading South, Heading to the Great Motherland! Thank You My God!". Chavez underwent surgery in Havana on February 26 to remove a cancerous tumor around the pelvis, the same area where a first tumor was extracted in June 2011. (Photo by: JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)](http://cbsmiami.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/141462279.jpg "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is welc")
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is welcomed with military honours at Caracas’ Maiquetia international airport on March 16, 2012 after spending three weeks in Cuba where he underwent cancer surgery. Chavez had earlier announced his departure from Cuba in a message sent to microblogging site Twitter; “Good afternoon, good world! Right now we are departing from the Jose Marti International Airport [in Havana] Heading South, Heading to the Great Motherland! Thank You My God!”. Chavez underwent surgery in Havana on February 26 to remove a cancerous tumor around the pelvis, the same area where a first tumor was extracted in June 2011. (Photo by: JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)
