Eyewitness: Venezuelans vote for socialism | Green Left Weekly
20.10.12
Eyewitness: Venezuelans vote for socialism | Green Left Weekly: By Pip Hinman, Caracas
About 3 million people march.
Nothing quite prepares you for a first visit to Venezuela ― especially when the country is polarised between two very different visions for the future.
This is how it was just before the October 7 presidential elections, which socialist President Hugo Chavez won with 55% of the vote in the largest turnout, more than 81%, in Venezuelan history.
The polarisation was marked by the fact that Chavez, who ran on a platform for a transition to socialism, and the opposition, whose right-wing candidate Henri Capriles ran on a platform that claimed to support Chavez's famous social missions, received their highest votes ever since Chavez was first elected in 1998.
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