Article: Chavez in power means Cuban system not far away.(The Orlando Sentinel)

Byline: Myriam Marquez

Venezuela's firebrand President Hugo Chavez survived the recall effort. I have no crystal ball, no Tarot cards or shells to divine the future, but I predicted as much more than a year ago.

It didn't take a Cuban santero to know Chavez's class-baiting would bring out the poor en masse to support him. And in a country where about four in every five residents are poor, the surprising thing is that 42 percent of Venezuela's voters saw through Chavez's class-division rhetoric and supported his ouster.

Certainly Chavez has mastered the art of propaganda, thanks to Cuba's own comandante, Fidel Castro, who has installed at least ...

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