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Chavez faces uprising at the ballot box
 On Feb. 12, Henrique Capriles Radonski, a 39-year-old Venezuelan state governor, won a primary election to become the oppositions candidate against Hugo Chavez in Octobers presidential election. He won 1.8 million of an astonishing 3 million votes double the turnout predicted by most analysts.The next day, Capriles, a devout Catholic, was greeted by a commentary on the government-run Web site of Venezuelan National Radio titled The Enemy Is Zionism. Capriles, it explained, is the descendant of Jews. (In fact, his grandmother was a Holocaust survivor who emigrated from Poland to Venezuela.) Thus began the latest and what will surely be the ugliest political campaign by Chavez, a ruler who has served as a friend in need to Moammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and who now is facing his own homegrown democratic uprising. Posted by: Pappy 2012-02-21 |
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