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March 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
He said he expected to return to Cuba on Saturday to resume his radiation
treatment, and to stay there for four more days.
The president started the radiation therapy last Saturday, saying he would
undergo one session a day for five consecutive days, then fly home to rest
for a couple of days. Overall, Chavez has said, the treatment should last
four or five weeks.
He previously underwent four sessions of chemotherapy that caused him to lose
his hair, which has since has grown back.
Chavez forecast he would win the Oct 7 election with more than 60 per cent of
votes. Most recent surveys give him a strong lead over his opposition rival,
youthful Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles.
Chavez’s strength in the polls is largely due to his enduring emotional
connection with the country’s poor majority, as well as heavy state spending
on popular welfare programs.
The surveys consistently show, however, that as many as a third of Venezuelans
remain undecided, and both camps have been waging a fierce battle to win
them over.
“The undecideds are definitely going to define the election,” Luis
Vicente Leon, president of Datanalisis, said on Thursday at the presentation
of the pollster’s results from March, which gave Chavez 44 per cent to 31
per cent for Capriles.
Leon said sympathy over Chavez’s illness had supported his ratings and taken
the edge off the political momentum Capriles gained when he easily won the
opposition’s primary in February.
“Capriles has not lost the battle,” he said. “Clearly it is
not an easy task, but the opposition never had a real option at presidential
elections before, and now Capriles has a chance.”
Capriles, 39, is widely seen as the opposition’s best hope of unseating Chavez
after years of failure via the ballot box and street protests. He is on a
nationwide “house-by-house listening tour” to kick-start his
campaign.
The centre-left politician has largely avoided direct verbal clashes with the
president and is promising a Brazilian-style government for Venezuela that
would promote free-market policies alongside strong social programs.
Chavez, known for his radical populism, nationalisations and fierce anti-U.S.
rhetoric, has denounced him as the “ultra-right” candidate and a
treasonous puppet of Washington.
In a televised speech later on Thursday, he threatened to nationalise local or
foreign companies he said were helping the opposition plot to trigger
violence around the election.
“I have some information about banks that support all these groups,
private banks. It would not be bad to take them for the fatherland, for the
people,” Chavez said.
“Or big national companies and some internationals that earn a lot of
money and support the opposition’s plans. … It would not be bad to order
the nationalisation of big companies for making an attempt against the
constitution.”
Source: agencies
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