Maduro says he knows the names of 900,000 traditionaly chavista voters who didn't vote for him.

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"We have to take down the sadness and the apathy that hit us and that can hit us again. 900,000 countrymen. 900,000. We already have them with their id cards and all. This meant that the gap (in the election results) was shorter."

5/16/2013

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1. "The best electoral system in the world"

From the A to the Y...

[MADem]

2. Is this the original comment or did he say this AGAIN?

Once was bad enough! And he wonders why some people look askance at his "victory?"

How long before he's squeezed out, and good old Diosdado, Hugo's Best Buddy from his Army days, puts on a military uniform, like "El Comandante" used to do, and tells everyone that it'll be all right...?

He sounds like Ari Fletcher! Watch what you say, watch what you do!

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3. I didn't see it posted the first time

Sorry for the repetition.

Diosdado "fuga de dolares" Cabello would be the worst. Maduro may lack federative capacity and other needed qualities for the crisis that's starting (the "dolar paralelo" is at 30 bolivares already and the construction sector is plummeting... end of boom even if the oil is still around 100$, sad), but Cabello is a criminal. Chavista and non chavista people simply hate him.

[MADem]

4. It might be a different venue and he's saying it again--it's hard to tell.

I was wondering if Cabello would play the "competence" card. He went WAY back with Hugo, and can perhaps rehabilitate his image with pictures of the two of them in their smiling youth. I think if he promises people chickens, arepa flour and toilet paper in the grocery stores (and then delivers), he might look sweeter to the population.

FWIW I don't disagree at all that Diosdado is a criminal, but I'd say close to half the population responds emotionally to heartstring tugs about the Dearly Departed, and promises about butt wipe and basic foodstuffs appeal to all.

It's a mess down there.

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5. so is he gonna "disappear" them - sounds like he threatening them ,,,

"We already have them with their id cards and all."