A picture dated 23/05/06 shows Venezuela's Comptroller General Clodosbaldo Russi‡n (center), at press conference with Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez (left) and the Ombudsman German Mundara’n (right). Russian suffered an ischemic stroke that keeps him in intensive care at the Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad, and is stable according to his doctor.

CARLOS HERNANDEZ)/(dpa