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Hello 2012! Golden Girls 2.0: Shared housing as a retirement strategy Related Topics World » Cuba » Venezuela » Related Video A homecoming for Chavez Mon, Jul 4 2011 Hugo Chavez returns home Chavez video released 1 / 12 Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hugs his daughters Rosa (L) and Maria while appearing to supporters on a balcony of Miraflores Palace soon after his return to the country from Cuba, where he underwent surgery and treatment for cancer, in Caracas July 4, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS | Tue Jul 5, 2011 1:04am EDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela marks the 200th anniversary of its independence on Tuesday with President Hugo Chavez back in his palace after a triumphant return from Cuba, where cancer surgery created lingering fears about his health. His return from Havana has allowed him to reassert control over the South American OPEC member but not dispelled concerns his condition may crimp his capacity to rule and prevent him from fully campaigning for a 2012 presidential election. "I must submit for a while to strict medical and scientific controls," Chavez told a delirious crowd of supporters in a homecoming speech late on Monday from his palace balcony. An aggravation of his illness could create political chaos in the oil exporting nation, where neither allies nor adversaries have designated leaders to succeed his charismatic rule, which has dominated Venezuela for 12 years. Chavez last week shocked the nation of 29 million with a terse statement saying he had been operated on for cancer, following a June 10 operation to remove a pelvic abscess. "You have no idea how much I cried that day," said Denis Leon, 40, a government worker, outside the presidential palace where Chavez appeared to thousands of cheering supporters. "Now all of those (opposition sympathizers) who wished him dead are the ones crying," he added. Chavez's allies, who are known for internecine disputes and vying for the president's attention, looked relieved and euphoric to see him back in Venezuela. Many in Venezuela had expected he could be in Cuba for weeks or even months. CANCER HIDES PROBLEMS The 56-year-old leader has built up broad support among the country's poor by spending oil revenues on social programs ranging from literacy courses to free medical clinics. And his vituperative criticism of U.S. foreign policy has made him a hero of leftists around the world. But he faces a host of problems that threaten to weaken his domestic support including high crime, frequent blackouts, soaring prices and a lack of affordable housing -- issues that made the 2012 election race look tight even before his cancer. On Monday, Chavez made his first appearance at home in almost a month on his palace balcony, the same spot where he greeted supporters after a botched 2002 coup against him. He rallied the crowd in an example of the political showmanship that has made him famous in Latin America and the world. Citing doctors' orders, he said he might skip Tuesday's celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's independence, an event central to his self-styled socialist revolution inspired by independence hero Simon Bolivar. He has prepared for the anniversary for years. Street parties are to be held across the nation, while tanks and jets will headline a military parade in Caracas to commemorate Venezuela's fight against Spanish colonial rule. Chavez's physical presence again in Venezuela has helped restore some of the aura of invincibility to a man famous for nearly superhuman stamina that has allowed him in the past to speak for hours and make dozens of appearances each month. Opposition leaders, who have spent more than a decade pillorying his personalized state-centric leadership, have struggled to develop a coherent response to his illness. They do not want to appear to be reveling in his suffering, but desperately need to take advantage of the moment after repeatedly failing to unseat him through mass demonstrations, a failed 2002 coup and a two-month oil industry shutdown. Local analyst Luis Vicente Leon said Chavez's reappearance and emotional speech to Venezuelans from his palace would generate plenty of sympathy but not necessarily dispel doubts over his exact state and capacity to run next year. "Obviously, the aim was to galvanize his supporters and maintain unity among Chavistas, but this speech will not calm the uncertainty," he said. (Additional reporting by Deisy Buitrago, Mario Naranjo; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Todd Eastham) World Cuba Venezuela Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (1) edword wrote: You go, Hugo!! and I do mean GO. 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