Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, in Cuba for his latest cancer treatment, has been firing off budget announcements via Twitter, adding fodder to opposition claims that he is governing by remote control.
Chavez on Thursday announced $500 million "to equip and modernize the Marine Corps," $22.7 million for agricultural development, $255 million for "staff and operating costs" for the communications ministry and $106 million for the production of sugar cane, all via the micro-blogging website.
Chavez, long a mainstay on state media, has been communicating almost exclusively via Twitter in recent weeks as he has shuttled to Cuba and back for several rounds of cancer treatment, fuelling speculation over his health.– AFP
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