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<span class="date-display-single">Sat, 18/08/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3999">Owen Richards</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>“It would be easier for 100 camels to pass through the eye of a needle than for [the capitalist class] to win the election”, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaking at the Caracas Municipal Theatre on August 15.</p>
<p>It is just six weeks until Venezuela’s October 7 presidential election pits incumbent Chavez and his pro-revolution Patriotic Pole electoral alliance against his main rival Henrique Capriles.</p>
<p>Capriles heads the right-wing opposition bloc, the Democratic Unity Forum (MUD). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51938" target="_blank">read more</a></p>