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<span class="date-display-single">Sat, 18/08/2012</span> </div>
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<p>The article below was abridged from <em>Correo Del Orinoco International</em>. </p>
<p><strong>See also</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51938">Venezuela: Chavez set for win as campaign pushes socialist transformation</a></p>
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<p>Internationally-acclaimed author, activist, and intellectual Tariq Ali highlighted the importance of Venezuela´s Bolivarian Revolution and socialist President Hugo Chavez at a conference at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela in Caracas over July 27-28.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51937" target="_blank">read more</a></p>