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...Another defeat for the North American empire. Another defeat for the devil." HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, on the significance of his re-election last week. Chávez said it's clear that the U.S. does not want to take meaningful steps toward détente with his country...
...Bush will, indeed, leave office before Chavez. And the Venezuelan president likes to remind audiences that Bill Clinton was a man he respected. So, if the White House reverts to the Democrats in 2008, Chavez may have more trouble rousing his base with anti-U.S. rhetoric...
Listening to his campaign speeches, you might think Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was running against George Bush - whom he has been known to call "the devil" - rather than Manuel Rosales in Sunday's presidential election. The Venezuelan leader is convinced that Washington is behind Rosales's effort to unseat him, and told an enormous campaign rally on Sunday that his real opponent was the "imperialist government of the United States." But the President's supporters say his hostility to the Bush Administration is not the main reason Chavez holds a commanding 20-point lead over Rosales according to most polls...
...pointing to studies showing that Chavez has failed to put a major dent in poverty and that crime has actually increased. But many in the dilapidated barrios on the outskirts of Caracas say they are better off since Chavez was elected in 1998. And since the majority of Venezuelan voters are from the lowest income brackets, that perception is what will count most on Sunday...
...denied treatment by a private hospital because she couldn't pay - Garcia is now getting attention at a free government-sponsored health care clinic. The program - called Barrio Adentro, Spanish for "inside the neighborhood" - brings tens of thousands of Cuban doctors to work in Venezuela in exchange for sending Venezuelan oil to Cuba under preferential terms. Since 2003, thousands of redbrick clinics have sprung up across the country, giving the poor 24-hour-a-day treatment closer to home...