Venezuela Analysis
written by Ewan Robertson
Monday March 11, 2013
Yesterday, the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) unanimously agreed to back Nicolas Maduro’s candidacy at their national conference.
Maduro, who attended the conference, emphasised his “special commitment” to the political bureau of the PCV. He also made concrete his invitation for the PCV to join the political – military leadership of the Bolivarian revolution, formed last Tuesday upon Chavez’s death.
He told the assembled PCV delegates that he welcomed “criticism and self-criticism as a Chavista and revolutionary method of constructing the nation”.
The socialist candidate also recognised the PCV’s historical role in Venezuela’s popular struggle, including being the first political party to support Chavez in his first presidential bid in 1998.
Yesterday’s move ensures that the unity between Maduro and Chavez’s party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and the PCV is maintained. Maduro argued that this unity was fundamental to the consolidation of the Bolivarian project.
“The only way that we are all Chavez is if we are all together. All together we are Chavez, separated we are nothing, and could lose everything,” he warned.
Meanwhile PCV secretary general Oscar Figuera said, “With the help of our people and the popular and revolutionary organisations, Nicolas Maduro will be elected constitutional president on 14 April”.
The PCV also handed Maduro a list of critical observations of the Bolivarian process they argue must be acted upon in the coming period.
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The Gateway Pundit
written by Jim Hoft
Monday March 11, 2013
Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles tried to register to run for president today but was blocked from entering the election board by Chavez-Maduro supporters.
Capriles will now be forced to ask a court to allow him to run in this month’s race. Venezuela set its first post-Chavez election for April 14. (Developing)
Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace the dead leader, while forcing the main opposition candidate to delay his entry into the race.The massive crowd thronged acting President Nicolas Maduro and blocked opposition candidate Henrique Capriles from registering for the April 14 vote by the 2 p.m. deadline.
The Capriles campaign told The Associated Press that an aide registered for the candidate at the election commission later Monday afternoon.
Maduro appeared right after Capriles on state TV on Sunday, accusing “the losing, miserable candidate” of defaming Chavez and his family. He called Capriles a “fascist” who was trying to provoke violence by insulting the “crystalline, pure image of Commander Chavez.”
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