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Bacchus4.0

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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:41 PM Apr 2013

Venezuela election: Mother of seven murdered sons says time for change

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/9991906/Venezuela-election-Mother-of-seven-murdered-sons-says-time-for-change.html

If it wasn't for the picture hanging on the wall of her crudely constructed slum-house in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, the story of how one mother lost all seven of her sons to violent crime might have been dismissed as an urban myth, or perhaps a piece of election propaganda.

But each of the seven young faces that stare out of the photo-montage against an idealised background of tulips and shimmering waterfalls has a name, and for their mother and surviving sisters, each one recalls the precariousness - and the grinding grief - of life in the Venezuelan barrio.

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"I always voted for Chavez since 1998 but I'd rather die than vote for Maduro," she says. "I don't like him, he has a lying face. It is time for change. The whole family is for Capriles now – me, my mother, my sister, my four daughters."

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Araiza rails against the high inflation and food shortages that are now afflicting the Venezuelan economy after Mr Chavez’s 14-year socialist revolution, fuelled by billions of petro-dollars, left the country’s old manufacturing and food processing industries in tatters and the economy that relies on oil sales for 95 per cent of its exports.

"Don't ask about the inflation. At this rate we're going to die of hunger," she says bitterly. "Soon we'll go the way of Cuba. With the food shortages I queued for three hours last week to buy three bottles of oil."

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Venezuela election: Mother of seven murdered sons says time for change (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 OP
Venezuela Analysis attributed the vote for Capriles to stories like this. joshcryer Apr 2013 #1
quite the astute observation by VenAnal Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #2

joshcryer

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1. Venezuela Analysis attributed the vote for Capriles to stories like this.
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:43 PM
Apr 2013

Oh, and calling the people ignorant for voting for him, but that aside, it's probably why so many chavistas jumped ship. Too many dead.

Bacchus4.0

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2. quite the astute observation by VenAnal
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:48 PM
Apr 2013

and we have heard here that violence really isn't a big deal (unless they are false accusation against the opposition attacking medical clinics)

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