Just a little comment on Chavez: is he alive?

I really do not follow much the gossip as to whether Chavez has a tube inside here or there. Nor do I agonize about the contradictory "communiques" of chavismo from ministers to Chavez's brother. No, no point wasting time when it is plain obvious the guy is really sick. That is enough for me.

However....

There has been now one month we have not heard anything direct from him. No photo. Not even a signature on a letter to announce his inability to show up on January 10. A letter, note, that anyone could have written and just presented him for his signature.  Can anyone believe that a media crazed clown like Chavez would not even stamp a signature?

And then they complain and threaten us because we wonder whether the guy is even alive.....