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10
2012
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What’s Next Venezuela Election Update: September 10, 2012

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Only 27 days remain until Venezuela’s elections, and polls continue to show a tight race. President Hugo Chávez admitted last week that he almost left politics because of his cancer, which appears to still be affecting him and limiting his campaign appearances. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has challenged Chávez to a debate, though it is unclear if the president will accept. Recently the socialist Chávez has tried to attract the rich and begun to make threats of a civil war, which many are taking as signs that he is worried about losing. The president’s already anemic campaign was hurt by a series of setbacks in the past weeks, including the refinery accident in Amuay and the Yare prison riot. Meanwhile, the president has increased his anti-Semitic attacks of Capriles, who is the grandson of Holocaust survivors.

Venezuela’s election enters its crucial last month, Foreign Policy

With one month to go before electing a president, both sides of Venezuela’s dismembered public sphere are pulling out all the stops. The polls find both candidates at the top of their games.

Hugo Chávez Says He Considered Leaving Politics over Cancer, Fox News

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez acknowledged Tuesday that he thought about abandoning public life after discovering he had cancer in June 2011, for which he had to be operated three times.

Venezuelan rival challenges Hugo Chávez to debate, Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles challenged President Hugo Chávez on Friday to debate the country’s problems in the final month of campaigning for the October presidential election. Capriles said he wants to debate issues such as education, health care and crime.

Venezuela’s Chávez woos rich, warns of “civil war”, Reuters

Venezuela’s famously anti-capitalist president, Hugo Chávez, has urged rich voters to back him or face “civil war,” while his opponent sought to reassure the poor he will not abandon popular socialist welfare policies if he wins next month’s election.

Venezuela’s Chávez stokes civil-war fears, The Miami Herald

As the Venezuelan presidential election on Oct. 7 draws closer, the anti-opposition rhetoric of Hugo Chávez is becoming more hysterical by the day.

Ten terrible days for Hugo, El Universal

The outgoing President’s current campaign opposes to his previous campaigns. The candidate of the masses that walked in the villages and filled the squares and avenues has been left behind.

Study: Venezuelan anti-Semitism at new heights in race between Chávez and Capriles, JTA

Anti-Semitism in Venezuela has spiked during the electoral race for president between a Catholic man of Jewish descent and President Hugo Chávez, according to a new report.

 
Sep
10
2012
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What’s Next Venezuela Election Update: September 10, 2012

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Only 27 days remain until Venezuela’s elections, and polls continue to show a tight race. President Hugo Chávez admitted last week that he almost left politics because of his cancer, which appears to still be affecting him and limiting his campaign appearances. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has challenged Chávez to a debate, though it is unclear if the president will accept. Recently the socialist Chávez has tried to attract the rich and begun to make threats of a civil war, which many are taking as signs that he is worried about losing. The president’s already anemic campaign was hurt by a series of setbacks in the past weeks, including the refinery accident in Amuay and the Yare prison riot. Meanwhile, the president has increased his anti-Semitic attacks of Capriles, who is the grandson of Holocaust survivors.

Venezuela’s election enters its crucial last month, Foreign Policy

With one month to go before electing a president, both sides of Venezuela’s dismembered public sphere are pulling out all the stops. The polls find both candidates at the top of their games.

Hugo Chávez Says He Considered Leaving Politics over Cancer, Fox News

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez acknowledged Tuesday that he thought about abandoning public life after discovering he had cancer in June 2011, for which he had to be operated three times.

Venezuelan rival challenges Hugo Chávez to debate, Associated Press

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles challenged President Hugo Chávez on Friday to debate the country’s problems in the final month of campaigning for the October presidential election. Capriles said he wants to debate issues such as education, health care and crime.

Venezuela’s Chávez woos rich, warns of “civil war”, Reuters

Venezuela’s famously anti-capitalist president, Hugo Chávez, has urged rich voters to back him or face “civil war,” while his opponent sought to reassure the poor he will not abandon popular socialist welfare policies if he wins next month’s election.

Venezuela’s Chávez stokes civil-war fears, The Miami Herald

As the Venezuelan presidential election on Oct. 7 draws closer, the anti-opposition rhetoric of Hugo Chávez is becoming more hysterical by the day.

Ten terrible days for Hugo, El Universal

The outgoing President’s current campaign opposes to his previous campaigns. The candidate of the masses that walked in the villages and filled the squares and avenues has been left behind.

Study: Venezuelan anti-Semitism at new heights in race between Chávez and Capriles, JTA

Anti-Semitism in Venezuela has spiked during the electoral race for president between a Catholic man of Jewish descent and President Hugo Chávez, according to a new report.

 
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What’s Next Venezuela Election Update: June 25, 2012

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A week before the official start of the campaign, both candidates express confidence that they will win the October 7 vote. Henrique Capriles believes his “house by house” campaign will win over enough votes to secure a victory. Chávez rejects Capriles’s request for a public debate. He gives no reason why, and instead insults Capriles, calling him a “non-entity.” .Capriles criticizes Chávez for Venezuela’s rampant crime and violence, which has increased significantly during his time as president. Chávez, secluded in his palace of Miraflores, trumpets a new government plan to combat violence, conveniently timed to coincide with the elections.

Despite polls, Venezuela opposition sees Chavez upset Chicago Tribune

Venezuela’s opposition shrugged off opinion polls showing President Hugo Chavez in the lead before October’s election and said on Wednesday its candidate Henrique Capriles would win thanks to a tireless “house-by-house” campaign.

Capriles confident of win over Venezuela’s Chávez, AFP

Henrique Capriles, the presidential candidate for Venezuela’s unified opposition, says he is confident he will defeat incumbent Hugo Chavez in October, predicting a 10-point margin of victory.

Chavez predicts big win in Venezuela election  Chicago Tribune

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez forecast he would win October’s election with more than 60 percent of the vote after a new poll showed on Tuesday he held a large lead over his opposition rival.

Can Capriles really defeat Chávez? El Universal

This is the question that Venezuelans have most frequently been asking themselves these days. In whatever conversation or daily analysis after praising or criticizing the “dull candidate (the way President Chávez calls his challenger Henrique Capriles),” a doubt inevitably surfaces: “But…do you really think that he can beat Chávez?”

Venezuela’s Chavez rejects poll debate, irking rival Reuters

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez ruled out on Monday holding a pre-election debate with opponent Henrique Capriles, saying he would be “ashamed” to measure himself against such a “non-entity.”

Capriles to Chávez: Get out of the presidential palace and see slaughter El Universal

Cedeño Avenue in northern-central Carabobo state fell short in view of the crowd that poured into it to listen to the speech of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski during the “Hurricane of Progress.”

Capriles Radonski: We cannot let violence prevail for six more years El Universal

The quiet peace of Tucacas, the capital of the José Laurencio Silva municipality, in northwestern Falcón state, was interrupted on Thursday because of the “Great March of Progress,” where the townspeople joined in and walked alongside opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski in a 1.3 mile march on the Democracia and 5 de Julio avenues.

Chavez Launches Security Plan Less Than 4 Months Before Elections, Fox News Latino

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez launched a new “great mission” to counter Venezuela’s soaring violence rate less than four months ahead of the elections in which he is seeking another six-year term.