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...two-dozen vehicles roving the hardscrabble back streets of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second city, a voice booms from loudspeakers calling the government candidate at this Sunday’s local election “the son of Hugo...
...Venezuela’s opposition leaders have accused the government of President Hugo Chávez of launching a campaign of persecution aimed at stripping them of power since they won key posts in regional elections...
...“To God what is God’s, and to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” said Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, as he presided over the expropriation of more than 30 oil terminals and some 300 boats....
...Manuel Rosales, who campaigned against Mr Chávez in the 2006 presidential race, fled the country to escape corruption charges and has been granted asylum in Peru....
...So far more than 180 protesters have been arrested and a former presidential candidate, Manuel Rosales, has called for their release, accusing the government of attempting to establish a “media hegemony”...
...Hugo Chávez was re-elected Venezuela’s president for a six-year term on Sunday with 61 per cent of the vote, 23 percentage points ahead of his main opponent, who conceded defeat but challenged the magnitude...
...If Mr Rosales were to produce an upset, it would not be without precedent, however....
...If Manuel Rosales’ reputed virility could somehow be cashed in for political capital, he probably would be odds-on favourite to deliver a shocking defeat to Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, in next month...
...President Hugo Chávez has promised to deliver a new constitution to Venezuelan legislators in the next few days....
...A triumphant Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s anti-American president, left his supporters in no doubt about his intent following a landslide election win....
...Judging by the dignified way Manuel Rosales, the losing candidate, accepted defeat on Sunday night, he realises that building up a viable alternative is a long-term process....
...Recent polls by Zogby International and Carolina Bescansa (of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid) all show President Hugo Chávez in the lead by about 20 percentage points....
...In other words Mr Keller’s “soft opposition supporters” may not actually turn out to vote for Mr Rosales....
...But, like most of her neighbours, she will still vote for Hugo Chávez in Sunday’s presidential election....
...eight-year reign, Manuel Rosales, a regional governor....
...On both initiatives there were mutterings about the president steering Brazil towards an elected dictatorship a la Venezuela of Hugo Chávez. This is probably guff....
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