Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro inaugurates a chapel in a military hospital in Caracas on Friday.<br/> <br />It's in this hospital that ailing President Hugo Chavez is being treated for cancer.<br/> <br />Maduro says Chavez is doing well and blamed the United States for recent rumors that Chavez is near death.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(English) VENEZUELAN VICE PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO, SAYING:<br/> <br />"They're part of a wing of the imperial power of the United States, that's the wing that has made more disasters and wars in our continent."<br/> <br />Chavez has not appeared in public since a December 11 cancer surgery in Cuba.<br/> <br />Maduro said that Chavez is strong and in good spirits but was undergoing intense treatment.<br/> <br />During his 14-year rule, Chavez has been critical of the U.S. and has financed aid programmes for leftist governments like Cuba and Bolivia.<br/> <br />Chavez has never revealed just what type of cancer he is suffering from.
