Gloria al bravo pueblo/ Wake-up call for Venezuela vote includes Chavez singing anthem

[Catherina]

Wake-up call for Venezuela vote includes Chavez singing anthem


By Associated Press,

CARACAS, Venezuela — Trucks blaring bugle calls have awoken Venezuelans long before dawn in a traditional election day get-out-the-vote tactic by the governing socialists.

For Sunday’s special election to replace the late President Hugo Chavez the trucks were also playing something new as they began their rounds at 3 a.m. local time: Chavez singing the national anthem and a military song that he made popular.

In some parts of greater Caracas fireworks were also set off.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/wake-up-call-for-venezuela-vote-includes-chavez-singing-anthem/2013/04/14/6fea886c-a4f5-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

Gloria al bravo pueblo

[Judi Lynn]

1. He absolutely lived for the people, we know that. This recording shows it, too.

You will NEVER see this from an anal right-winger. They just have nothing inside which connects with the world of human beings, nor the spirit of the human race.

Thank you for the voices.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Chavez Get-out-the-Vote Machine Knocks on Doors

Chavez Get-out-the-Vote Machine Knocks on Doors
By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela April 14, 2013 (AP)

It's nearly midday Sunday and pro-government community leader Richard Escobar is marshaling get-out-the vote forces just outside a polling station in his piece of Petare, one of Latin America's biggest slums.,

"Noon at the red rendezvous point," he repeats several times for emphasis to a man who will dispatch volunteers into steep hills jammed with brick homes to rouse laggards that they know will vote for Nicholas Maduro, the anointed political heir of Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer last month.

"We're planning at midday to comb all the stairways in the sector and knock on doors to make sure they vote," says Escobar. "Each person will go up a separate stairway."

During Chavez's 14 years in power his supporters consolidated grass-roots power in Petare, where a half million of Venezuela's 29 million people reside, by divvying out cash for soup kitchens, senior centers, nurseries and other services.

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chavez-vote-machine-knocks-doors-18951983#.UWr6vOoo7_Q

[Flatulo]

3. Errr... Not too crazy about bugles blaring at 3:00AM.

[ocpagu]

4. So touching.

One of the most beautiful national anthems ever. I've always found the lyrics so beautiful... and so appropriate to current day Venezuela. It's so heartwarming to hear Chávez singing it along with the people.

"Unida con lazos
que el cielo formó
la América toda
existe en nación.
Y si el despotismo
levanta la voz
seguid el ejemplo
que Caracas dio."

Thank you for this gift, Catherina.