Venezuelan opposition calls on Chavez to 'communicate' The Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles called on President Hugo Chavez to communicate from Cuba to reassure the country about his state of health, at a meeting held in a sports centre after a planned rally was cancelled, to avoid clashing with a much larger pro-Chavez rally in the city centre. Nothing has been heard from the President since he went to Cuba for cancer treatment in mid-December. Images.