With just the few days to go before the region elections, Caracas has been hit by torrential rains. Mudslides and flooding have affected 170 dwellings and two deaths have been reported in the El Valle Parish. Libertador Mayor, Freddy Bernal reports that mudslides threw rocks on to the Pan American highway affecting traffic in El Junquito. 24 mm of rain fell on the city yesterday. Interior & Justice Minister, Tarek El Aissami has been to Baruta municipality to gauge the effects of heavy rains that flooded the area and to ensure that machinery started clearing the main roadways after rocks and debris prevented traffic from moving.
President Chavez has appeared on television calling on people to be calm, despite constant and heavy rains throughout Venezuela. The President says the government had been working hours assessing the situation and ensuring that all Civil Protection teams and organized communities are mobilized. Heavy rains have also caused damage in Tachira and Merida states. So far seven deaths have been reported.
Opposition candidate to the Metro Mayor's Office, Antonio Ledezma has complained about the President going on national TV calling for calm because of dangerous levels of rainfall throughout Venezuela, calling it an act of political opportunism, given that elections are just three days away. Pro-government candidate to Libertador municipality, Jorge Rodriguez has taken the initiative calling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) activists on to the streets to help clear debris and fallen rocks from the highways.
United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidate to the state governorship of Zulia, Gian Carlo Di Martino closed his campaign last night in Maracaibo with a mass rally, along with the candidates to the Maracaibo and San Francisco mayor's offices, Henry Ramirez and Omar Prieto. The candidate has reinforced and ordered followers to put in place the encirclement technique ordered by President Chavez saying that after voting, everybody should remain around voting centres because "from five o'clock onwards, we will celebrate the rebirth of Zulia."
Venezuela's Ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS), Roy Chaderton Matos has criticized CNN for its coverage of regional elections due to take place in Venezuela on Sunday. The CNN Spanish service, the diplomat states, is racist and part of a destabilization plan of the international ultra-right. The CNN, Chaderton Matos contends, is manipulating information about National Elections Council (CNE) norms on media silence just before the elections, calling it a restriction on freedom of information. Chaderton Matos insists that the ban on political reporting a few days before the election is an historical electoral norm in Venezuela, which has been in force for the last 50 years. The diplomat also defends President Chavez' support of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela during the campaign, stating that it is normal in a democracy for the Head of State or Prime Minister to support his party because it is one way of backing government achievements while in office.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
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