Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Brazil .- Dies at 79 Former Vice President Jose Alencar

SAO PAULO, 29 Mar. Former Brazilian Vice President Jose Alencar has died Tuesday at age 79 following a bowel obstruction caused by cancer that was diagnosed fourteen years ago, official sources confirmed. Alencar vice-president of Brazil from 2003-2007, during the two terms of the now former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

His condition worsened considerably by the end of last year, why could not deliver the cargo at the inauguration in January of her friend's current president, Dilma Rousseff. The Brazilian politician was admitted on Monday in Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo, where he died at 14.41 hours (19.41 hours in Spain) because of the "cancer" that caused intestinal "multiple organ failure," said in a statement treating physician team.

The former vice president fought a cancer diagnosed in 1997 that forced him to undergo surgery on 17 occasions and undergo several chemotherapy treatments.

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