Venezuelan president's challenger wishes him long life

Henrique Capriles Radonski, the candidate of the opposition umbrella group Unified Democratic Panel (MUD) running for president in election scheduled for October 7, reposed hope in "a successful surgery" and a "long life" for Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

"As a child of God that I am, I wish my opponent a successful surgery, a speedy recovery and a long life," Capriles Radonski posted on his Twitter account.

Chávez announced Tuesday that Cuban doctors found "a new lesion" on the same site where a cancerous tumor had been resected and that his lesion is very likely to be malignant. He said he would undergo surgery soon.