(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-cvr-121231-hugo-chavez-tease-1250p.photoblog600.jpg)AFPVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaking during a press conference in Caracas on Oct. 9.By NBC News staff and wire reportsUpdated at 5:15 a.m. ET: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in stable condition and spent Monday with his daughters, the cancer-stricken leader's son-in law-said in an appeal for supporters to ignore rumors about his condition.
Chavez has not been seen in public nor heard from in more than three weeks. The vice president said on Sunday that the 58-year-old was suffering a third set of complications after surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11, his fourth operation in 18 months.
"President Chavez spent the day quietly and stable, together with his daughters," his son-in-law, Science Minister Jorge Arreaza, wrote on Twitter from Havana, where the family has been at the president's bedside.
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