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07/10/2012 |
Venezuelan expats in US flock to New Orleans to vote
Thousands of Venezuelans who live in the United States crowded outside a New Orleans convention center to cast ballots in Venezuela's presidential election, with many hoping their vote will help drive President Hugo Chavez from power.
07/10/2012 |
Election test for Venezuela bond fans
Investors who have been buying up Venezuelan bonds in hopes of an opposition victory in this weekend’s presidential election will be heartened by the results of a poll from Consultores 21 which shows Henrique Capriles having the edge on incumbent Hugo Chávez.
07/10/2012 |
Key facts: Chávez battles Capriles for Venezuelan presidency
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez faces opposition challenger Henrique Capriles in what looks like the former soldier's toughest election in 14 years of socialist rule.
05/10/2012 |
Capriles’ finale
Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski also closed his presidential campaign yesterday with a rally in Lara state.
05/10/2012 |
A rainy red roundup rally
Nobody and nothing was missing. Including the water. Under the pouring rain, Hugo Chávez held his closing campaign rally in Caracas yesterday, haranguing the packed masses of his supporters who since early morning had been thronging along the seven main avenues of the Venezuelan capital.
07/10/2012 |
Chávez’s fate lies in Venezuela’s divided barrios
The last time he ran for re-election, President Hugo Chávez won comfortably in Petare, one of Latin America’s biggest slums with nearly half a million people.
05/10/2012 |
Campaign climbs the hills
A red shelter on the pavement passes as a voting centre or “red campaign point” with not the slightest intention of going unnoticed. Loudspeakers blare out full-blast their catchy jingle without pause under the magenta shade with a table strewn with “Chávez Corazón (Chávez with all my heart)” papers underneath.
07/10/2012 |
Chávez's socialist rule at risk as Venezuelans vote
Hugo Chávez loyalists blew bugles in a wake up call for voters as the Venezuelan leader faced the biggest electoral challenge yet to his socialist rule from a young rival tapping into discontent over crime and cronyism.
07/10/2012 |
Queues of voters symbolize a mature democracy, Chávez
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said today he is "very happy" so far with the outcome of the general elections and predicted that given the massive participation in the process it may not close until past 6pm local time.
