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DetlefK

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Wed Jun 1, 2016, 07:04 AM Jun 2016

Maduro wants Sanders for President; Sanders called Chavez "dead communist dictator"

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/venezuelas-maduro-rooting-for-revolutionary-friend-sanders-in-presidential-campaign/

Maduro, a socialist who sees himself as the political heir to his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, has long railed against the United States, blaming it for Venezuela’s economic crisis and accusing Washington of attempting to topple him.

“Bernie Sanders, our revolutionary friend, ought to win in the United States,” Maduro said during an hours-long televised broadcast.

“If the elections were free … Bernie Sanders would be president of the United States,” he said, criticizing the U.S. Electoral College system as unrepresentative of popular sentiment.

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In an email to supporters in September, Sanders called Chavez a “dead communist dictator.”

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Maduro is also under pressure from Venezuela’s opposition, which is pushing for a recall referendum to remove him from office this year, although authorities have said there would be no such vote.
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