URGENT - Venezuela-Chavez-Health

Published On: Jan 03 2013 08:13:45 PM CST

(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is battling a "severe lung infection" and has "respiratory insufficiency," Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said Thursday.

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