Chavez: Prevent
Opposition Beachheads
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez has focused
his strategy for the
upcoming elections of
governors and mayor on
the struggle against the
opposition"s efforts to
create "beachheads".
The strategy has reached
the regions led by
opposition leaders, like
the western oil state of
Zulia, but also new
strongholds such as
Carabobo, whose
governor, Luis Acosta
Carles, was expelled
from the United
Socialist Party of
Venezuela (PSUV).
Speaking at a rally on
Saturday to introduce
the PSUV candidates in
Carabobo, Chavez charged
that some sectors are
promoting the
independent candidacy of
Acosta Carles, who was
defeated in the party"s
internal elections.
"We cannot allow either
the counterrevolution,
or the oligarchy, or the
traitors who jumped the
fence to create
beachheads in the
strategic areas of the
Bolivarian Revolution,
and Carabobo is a
strategic area," he
explained.
The opposition"s plan
consists of winning a
considerable number of
provincial governments
and town halls in the
Nov. 23 elections to
overthrow Chavez and the
revolution in 2009, he
noted.
That implies to hold the
power in the states of
Nueva Esparta and Zulia,
and win the elections in
Carabobo, Aragua,
Miranda, the City Hall
of Caracas and other
states.
Those areas include the
state of Guarico, whose
governor, Eduardo
Manuitt, was also
expelled from the PSUV
after ignoring the
internal elections.
The counterrevolution is
supporting him (Acosta
Carles) and is trying to
divide the popular
movements, so that those
families who ruled the
state and the oligarchy
can return and establish
themselves strongly,
Chavez pointed out.
The head of State and
PSUV president called on
his followers to support
the registration of 2.5
million Venezuelan
voters who have not
registered yet and to
organize "battalions and
operative patrols".
The idea is that PSUV
members do direct
vote-catching work in
each sector while the
government strengthens
the struggle against
corruption,
inefficiency,
bureaucracy and
insecurity on the
streets. |
