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...second term expires in 2012. But two of the most emphatically anti-Chávez figures at the consulate weren't voters. They weren't even Venezuelan. They were some of South Florida's most prominent and outspoken Cuban-American politicians: Republican Representatives Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Chávez won his referendum handily, but the day was still a victory of sorts for Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen, who got to cultivate potential constituents with a common concern - namely, the tight alliance between Chávez and their own nemesis, the Castro regime in Cuba...
...Venezuelans are under a lot of pressure from Chávez, who is acting more like a dictator every day," says Diaz-Balart, who accuses the Venezuelan President of human-rights abuses against opponents and of pressuring independent media that criticize his government. Ros-Lehtinen agrees, noting the similarities between the Cubans who fled the island in the wake of Fidel Castro's communist revolution 50 years ago and the Venezuelans now residing in her South Florida district. "We are very much aware of the key issues facing them," she says. Adds Ninoska Perez, director of the conservative Cuban Liberty...
Then again, even Barack Obama does a lousy impression of himself. When he called Congresswoman Illeana Ros-Lehtinen on Dec. 3, the Florida Republican hung up on the President-elect not once, but twice, apparently believing herself to be the victim of a prank call. (See the top 10 awkward moments...
...Lehtinen, Ileana •determination of not to "be punked" leads to hanging up twice on Obama...
...support of moderates. "The rate of evaporation of support for Musharraf over the past few months is unprecedented," says Iqbal. "I don't come across a single person who is defending Musharraf today." Even support from the U.S. seems to be wavering. Representatives Tom Lantos and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen along with Senator Joe Biden wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently, saying that, "It is our impression that many Pakistani citizens view the President's campaign against the nation's Chief Justice as an attempt to cow the judicial system into sanctioning electoral rigging and extraconstitutional delay...