¡Elecciones en Venezuela HOY!
Mapa electoral de Venezuela, la campaña por los municipios y estados será reñida. Aquí pueden apreciar un mapa electoral en el que podemos apreciar como está dividido el país en esta vital contienda.
President Hugo Chávez faces an important test of his self-styled socialist revolution today, when Venezuelans vote in regional and local elections after a tumultuous election campaign.
Opinion polls suggest a resurgent opposition could win control of key states and cities and rein in the forceful president on the eve of his 10th anniversary in power.
Discontent over violent crime, inflation and poor public services threatens to topple government candidates and trip up Chávez’s ambition to turn South America’s energy giant into a socialist state.
With government revenues tumbling along with oil prices, the president has cast the election as an existential battle to protect the revolution from traitorous “little Yankees” (pitiyankis) and criminals who take orders from Washington.
“If I am to continue governing Venezuela, it will depend on what happens today. Make no mistake, Chávez’s political destiny is in play here,” he said this week.
Opposition leaders said the vote was a chance to rebuff an authoritarian megalomaniac whose corrupt and incompetent rule frittered a historic oil windfall.
“It is not a choice between capitalism and socialism, that’s a lie. Here the choice is between efficiency and inefficiency,” said Carlos Ocariz, the opposition candidate for Sucre, an impoverished municipality in Caracas which opinion polls suggest has swung away from Chávez.
Read full story at The Guardian.
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