Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed an October election victory, in his first public comment after surgery in Cuba this week to remove a pelvic lesion.

On Wednesday evening, President Chavez sent a twitter message to Venezuelans saying, “I send you all my supreme love! We will live and we will win!”

Vice President Elias Jaua says he spoke with President Chavez Wednesday, and described him as “recovering,” and “energetic.”