- In the lead up to next Sunday's regional elections, pro-government candidates have started closing their electoral campaigns.
President Chavez has once again been in Zulia State to support United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidates, this time heading a massive cavalcade from San Francisco parish to Maracaibo. The government, Chavez told followers at a finishing rally, must win the state governorship of Zulia with Gian Carlo Di Martino, Maracaibo with Henry Ramirez and San Francisco with Omar Prieto. The President has promised to save the future of Zulia and turn it into a " great land, a Socialist Zulia." Continuing his bombardment against current State Governor, Manuel Rosales, Chavez warns that the latter has a week left in office after which he will go to prison for corruption, along with all his sidekicks and Mafia contacts. President Chavez has made Zulia a key electoral target and prize as evidenced by constant campaign appearances and monitoring of the state of unity among local government supporters plagued by a history of internal divisions and grumblings. All eyes will be on the results in Zulia State next Sunday and the response of the losing side.
United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidates to the Libertador and Metropolitan mayor's offices, Jorge Rodriguez and Aristobulo Isturiz respectively closed their campaigns on Saturday with a mass rally in Plaza O'Leary (Caracas). Rodriguez says it has been a tough campaign and was undertaken in a style different from that used under the Fourth Republic which, he insists, was based on buying votes. More than 200 visits to barrios and organizations in the 22 parishes took place, Rodriguez points out in his summary, and both candidates agreed that listening to people, they found out that people wanted to build a new country and a Socialist Caracas. A new feature in the government's electoral campaign has been the participation of communal councils, health committees, urban land committees, water technical committees, cultural groups, community and alternative media and of course, PSUV electoral battalions. If elected, the two candidates have promised to set up 120 more communal councils and consolidate the policy of handing power to the people.
PSUV candidate to the Caracas municipality of Sucre (Miranda), Jesse Chacon has announced that from November 23 the bourgeoisie state will be destroyed to make way for communes based on popular power. The candidate made a speech during a concert for victory held in the heart of the opposition's Plaza Altamira. Next Sunday's elections, Chacon ventures, will decide between Socialism and barbarianism ... " we are certain that democratic socialism will win." Summarizing his campaign, the candidate highlights the efficiency of street campaigning with the people, communal councils and other forms of social organization.
President Chavez has announced that the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (Alba) and Petrocaribe summit will take place towards the end of the month. The summit will analyze the current economic and financial crisis and take decisions to protect its members and poor countries. Chavez has criticized the G-20 summit for failing to include a representation of smaller and poor countries. Chavez predicts that nothing will come of the meeting because it is there that one can find the cause of the current disaster. "They say they want to re-found Capitalism but what must be done is to bury Capitalism and re-found Socialism, which is the road towards saving the peoples of the world."
During his Sunday TV political show, former Executive Vice President, Juan Vicente Rangel forecasts that the government will win in Merida and Bolivar. According to the polls, Rangel states that Marcos Diaz in Merida will obtain 47.6% of votes to 22.3% of his nearest rival, William Davila, while Francisco Rangel Gomez in Bolivar will obtain 40.1% to Andres Velasquez' 31.4%. The journalist points out that there have been meetings of opposition bankers to discuss important economic aid to opposition leaders. The move has been opposed by other financial sector personalities, Rangel adds, because they believe that it will expose the sector to risks and further confusion. Speaking about Colombia, Rangel asks why hasn't Defense Minister Jose Manuel Santos been purged, along with 27 colonels and generals for massacres and forced disappearance of persons.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
patrick.vheadline@gmail.com
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