VENEZUELA : Analysis: A New Election...Not Cancer...The Cure For Ailing Economy.

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Hugo Chavez's opponents are not attacking him during his illness...nor emphasizing the serious downside of his recent secret cancer surgery in Cuba.


Instead...they are concentrating on next year's presidential election.


"We have a route and we're going to follow it," said leading Chavez critic, Caracas metropolitan mayor Antonio Ledezma.