NOT SURPRISING

Date: 01-Feb-12
From: News Center Publications
Subject: February Caribbean Memo-2012

Dear Friends:

It’s not surprising.

Once Henrique Capriles won a landslide win to be Venezuela’s Democratic Unity coalition's primary to run against President Hugo Chavez in October, government reaction was quick and expected.

One could conclude Chavez and his followers faced a serious challenge to the president’s chances for re-election.

In any kind of open society what Chavez and his followers said would be called unacceptable and over the top at the very least.

Here is why.

Chavez said: “I will pulverize him.”

Congressional leader and former Chavez military comrade Diosdado Cabello added: "We know he [Capriles] is the candidate of imperialism, of capitalism and the right wing."

They claim the 39-year-old state governor is both "bourgeois" and "fascist," a direct reference to Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

Capriles is the grandson of Jews who survived the World War Two Holocaust in Poland.

And a senior Chavez aide released a cartoon showing Capriles in pink shorts with a Nazi Swastika on his arm.

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