"See if you can guess....what I am now...."
Posted on 02/17/2012 10:17:03 AM PST by mandaladon
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez attacked the new opposition candidate for the country's highest office as a "low-life ... pig" in a defamatory speech broadcast on state radio and TV late Thursday.
As the country's election season gets underway, Chavez said of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles that, "you have a pig's tail, a pig's ears, and you snort like a pig," according to AFP.
On Sunday, the 39-year-old Capriles won an overwhelming victory in an opposition primary. He was quickly vilified in a campaign in Venezuela's state-run media, which insinuated he was a homosexual and a Zionist agent.
Earlier this week, Chavez, in power since 1999, also accused Capriles of being "the candidate of the bourgeois, of capitalism, of imperialism."
Capriles won more than 1.8 million votes out of more than three million votes cast, stunning the government, which predicted a far smaller turnout.
Although Chavez is still popular with many poor Venezuelans, the country is afflicted with the world's highest inflation rate and suffers from a wave of violence, shortages of basic foods and frequent power blackouts.
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"See if you can guess....what I am now...."
Chavez is obviously auditioning for a job as an MSNBC anchor.
Obviously Hugo hasn’t looked in a mirror lately, not that I blame him, ...oink, oink.
Venezuelans told me they believed it was drug de-tox. The cancer story was a cover. Who knows.
bump for later
He'd fit right in with the rest of the village idiots.
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