A supporter of Venezuelan President Chavez holds a copy of a photograph of Chavez during a gathering at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas

A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a copy of a photograph of Chavez released by the Ministry of Information, during a gathering at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas February 15, 2013. Venezuela published the first photos of cancer-stricken Chavez since his surgery in Havana more than two months ago, and said the socialist president was breathing through a tracheal tube and struggling to speak. The two pictures showed the 58-year-old, his face looking swollen but smiling, lying down in a hospital bed and flanked by his two daughters. In one, they were reading Thursday’s edition of the Cuban state newspaper Granma. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA – Tags: POLITICS HEALTH TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)