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...Hugo Chavez is back on the warpath. Venezuela's radical left-wing President took a humbling hit at the United Nations this month when his archenemy, the Bush Administration, blocked his bid for a Security Council seat - a prize for which he'd lobbied all over the world. Now, Chavez plans to get his revolutionary groove back, not just by winning re-election on December 3, but by destroying his U.S.-backed rival, Manuel Rosales, with a massive landslide...
...Campaigning before thousands of roaring, red T-shirted socialist youths at a Caracas arena, Chavez leaps around the stage to the sounds of the Puerto Rican hip-hop derivative known as "reggaeton" and Venezuela's driving gaita music, unleashing all his raving martial thunder. "Be an army," he shouts, "whose commandos, battalions and platoons do combat day and night until we reduce our opponents to rubble and dust!" If, as expected, Chavez trounces Rosales on Sunday, he can technically claim victory in his larger fight with the U.S. - but just barely...
...continent was widely billed as a battle for Latin America's soul: Venezuela's contest is the last of a grueling 10 presidential races since last December that pitted Washington's globalization agenda against the more statist policies of the new Latin American left. And with leftist economist and Chavez pal Rafael Correa defeating conservative billionaire Alvaro Noboa in this week's Ecuador run-off vote, a Chavez win will give the left a 6-4 edge. But the intensity of the contest will be demonstrated elsewhere on Friday - at the inauguration of Mexico's conservative President-elect, Felipe Calderon...
...recent TIME interview, Chavez himself insisted that "a third way is not possible." But when the microphones are off, Chavez doesn't always walk his radical talk - in fact, it's precisely his third-way programs that have been such a hit with the poor...
...Chavez was asked in a recent press conference with foreign media if he would try to incorporate the alienated opposition into politics if he wins on December 3rd, which most polls are predicting he will, by a margin of 15% to 20%. He replied that his government didn't intentionally exclude anyone, saying it was the opposition's own fault they didn't have representation in the legislature after they organized the election boycott last year. "I ask the sectors of the opposition to assume their democratic responsibilities," he said. Many Venezuelans wish both political camps would take that advice...