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Related: About this forumVenezuela’s Hugo Chavez faces an uprising at the ballot box
On Feb. 12, Henrique Capriles Radonski, a 39-year-old Venezuelan state governor, won a primary election to become the oppositions candidate against Hugo Chavez in Octobers presidential election. He won 1.8 million of an astonishing 3 million votes double the turnout predicted by most analysts.
The next day, Capriles, a devout Catholic, was greeted by a commentary on the government-run Web site of Venezuelan National Radio titled The Enemy Is Zionism. Capriles, it explained, is the descendant of Jews. (In fact, his grandmother was a Holocaust survivor who emigrated from Poland to Venezuela.)
In order to understand the interests embodied by Capriles, the commentary declared, its important to know what is Zionism, the Israeli ideology that he sneakily represents. . . . It is, without doubt, an ideology of terror, of the most putrefied sentiments of humanity; its supposedly patriotic impetus is based in greed. And so on.
Zionism, it concludes, is owner of the majority of the financial institutions of the planet, controls almost 80 percent of the world economy and virtually all of the communications industry, in addition to maintaining decision-making positions within the U.S. Department of State and European powers.
More at:http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/venezuelas-hugo-chavez-faces-an-uprising-at-the-ballot-box/2012/02/17/gIQAfApFOR_story.html?wprss=rss_linkset
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Chavez approving of ads like that.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Hugo is no prize package nor is his opponent. Capriles claims his model is Brazil's Lula. Capriles is backed by USAID and American corporations. Mr. Capriles will most likely be a fascist should he win.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Let's see a link that actually provides corroborating sources as opposed to mere propaganda.
Capriles would keep price controls in place and would keep the oil nationalized (and it's unlikely the oil will cease to be nationalized as far as revenue sharing is concerned).
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)A commentator writes:
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)played the antisemitism card repeatedly. This is just the newest interation. Fearless Leader's referring to a grandson of Holocaust survivors as a "pig" is probably just coincidence.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/hugo-chavezs-jewish-problem/