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Chevez's imported cheerleaders (Pro-Revolution Academics, etc.)
If you watched Venezuelan state-run television in early 2009, you probably saw a sweetly smiling young Italian woman wearing a neon-green chef's hat and brandishing a pizza while extolling the virtues of indefinite re-electionof Hugo Chavez ... The ad also featured an Englishwoman daintily sipping tea, a German dressed something like a yodeler, and a beret-clad Frenchman holding a baguette across his chest. I had come to Venezuela to cover the Feb. 15 referendum, but I became obsessed by these people. by Alexander Cuadros is a freelance writer based in Bogota, Colombia published by Slate Posted by: mhw 2009-04-02 |
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