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By Brian Ellsworth
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington.
The former soldier and self-styled revolutionary is favored in the polls to beat rival Manuel Rosales after building a solid political base through a social development campaign financed by oil revenues.
Chavez supporters flooded Caracas thoroughfares waving flags and banners, congregating in different parts of the downtown a day after Rosales sympathizers held a similar march to close his campaign in the capital city.
today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-11-26T225208Z_01_N26404107_RTRUKOC_0_US-VENEZUELA-ELECTION-CHAVEZ.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington.
The former soldier and self-styled revolutionary is favored in the polls to beat rival Manuel Rosales after building a solid political base through a social development campaign financed by oil revenues.
Chavez supporters flooded Caracas thoroughfares waving flags and banners, congregating in different parts of the downtown a day after Rosales sympathizers held a similar march to close his campaign in the capital city.
today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-11-26T225208Z_01_N26404107_RTRUKOC_0_US-VENEZUELA-ELECTION-CHAVEZ.xml&src=rss&rpc=22