11/09/2012 | Printed Edition
CARACAS — Venezuela’s stridently anti-capitalist president, Hugo Chávez, has urged the rich to vote for him to prevent a “civil war,” while his rival told the poor he will not scrap popular Socialist welfare projects if he wins next month’s election. Chávez, 58, and Henrique Capriles, 40, face off in an October 7 vote for the presidency of the South American nation of 29 million people, which has the world’s largest oil reserves and is a financier of leftist governments around the region.