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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2013 5:05:26 GMT
Venezuela is electing a new president on Sunday 14th April following the death of Hugo Chavez - just six months after Chavez had last been elected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_election,_2013 The second paragraph under the sub heading "Campaign" makes extraordinary reading! |
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Post by Devonian on Apr 12, 2013 10:51:55 GMT
Oh it gets better than that faustasblog.com/2013/04/venezuela-and-now-the-macarapana-curse/Of course living in a developed country we can look at this type of thing how can voters take this seriously but of course Maduro's core vote are the poor masses of Venezuala. Badly educated and living in slums and poor villages I think this kind of rhetoric is designed to appeal to them. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2013 8:23:27 GMT
surprised no comments on just how narrow the victory was for Chavez's chosen one, certainly seemed to surprise most commentators as polls were showing double digit leads
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Post by Devonian on Apr 15, 2013 10:59:40 GMT
surprised no comments on just how narrow the victory was for Chavez's chosen one, certainly seemed to surprise most commentators as polls were showing double digit leads I think it may partly be that Capriles, although characterised as centre right had promised to continue Chevez's wealth redistribution programme although combining this with market liberalisation, so a sort of Venezualan New Labour rather that straightforwardly right wing. I think it may also have been to do with the kind of rhetoric linked to earlier in this thread. Of course such rhetoric would help to get out the poor vote but it would also worry others. It occours to me that it might be much more worrying coming from Maduro than from Chavez because of course Chavez was a known quantity whereas people might be uncertain about Maduro. |
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Post by Hash on Apr 15, 2013 13:25:09 GMT
LibDem bar graphs are facing stiff competition from Venezuela:
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Post by Andrew_S on Apr 15, 2013 15:24:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2013 17:42:48 GMT
surprised no comments on just how narrow the victory was for Chavez's chosen one, certainly seemed to surprise most commentators as polls were showing double digit leads I might have done had I not been working today. |
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Post by Devonian on Apr 16, 2013 20:29:22 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Apr 26, 2013 15:41:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2013 21:43:08 GMT
Yesterday's proceedings in the Venezuelan parliament:
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