HAVANA, Cuba.- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that he will return to Caracas from Cuba on April 26 after receiving radiotherapy treatment on the island, following a third surgery to remove the reproduction of a malignant tumor.

Chavez, 57, got in contact with Venezuela by telephone via the VTV state television channel, while the president of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, was heading the regular weekly press conference of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).