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

REUTERS / ANALYSIS / P.Fletcher


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.

VENEZUELA: Possible 2012 Chavez Opponents.

REUTERS/  Here are brief descriptions of six of the leading opposition contenders in 2012's presidential contest against Hugo Chavez : HENRIQUE CAPRILES RADONSKI, HENRY FALCON, LEOPOLDO LOPEZ, PABLO PEREZ, ANTONIO LEDEZMA, MANUEL ROSALES and others.

Venezuelan Mayor Ends Anti-Chavez Fast.

From the Latin American Herald Tribune.

Harrassed Venezuelan Mayor Plans Hunger Strike.