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Venezuela’s elections represented Bolivarian revolution victory – Fidel

Venezuela’s elections represented Bolivarian revolution victory – Fidel
By Larry Moonze in Havana, Cuba
Thu 30 Sep. 2010, 00:20 CAT

FIDEL Castro has said Sunday's parliamentary elections in Venezuela represented a victory for the Bolivarian revolution and its leader Hugo Chavez.

And Castro was yesterday expected to address a public meeting in Old Havana to mark the 50th anniversary of Cuba’s largest mass organisation, the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution.

Meanwhile, President Chavez has asked the new parliament to work harder to strengthen the mandates of the Venezuelan Constitution in the cultural, social, economic and political order.

President Chavez’s party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) obtained 98 seats out of the 165 up for grabs. The opposition umbrella group, the Table for Democratic Unity (MUD) with 65 will now become an important bloc in the new parliament from January 2011. Homeland for All party got two seats.

Castro, the head of the Communist Party of Cuba and leader of the Cuban revolution, on Monday said in Venezuela that the United States could only rely on fragments of opposition parties cobbled together through their fear of the revolution and gross material cravings.

He said during the campaign period, vast US media resources tried to sink the revolutionary Bolivarian government in a sea of lies and calumnies.

“What the yankis Americans want is Venezuela’s oil,” Castro said.

He said the President Chavez’s enemy had succeeded with some of its aims of preventing the Bolivarian government from winning the support of two thirds of the Parliament.

“Perhaps the empire believes that it obtained a great victory,” Castro said.

“I believe exactly the opposite. The results of September 26 represent a victory for the Bolivarian Revolution and its leader Hugo Chavez Frias. In these parliamentary elections, the participation of the electors rose to the record figure of 66.45 per cent. With its vast resources, the empire could not prevent the PSUV from obtaining 95 of the 165 seats in parliaments with six results still to come in,” said Castro.

“The most important thing is the high number of young people, women and other combative and proven activists who have entered this institution. The Bolivarian revolution today holds executive power, has a majority in Parliament and a party capable of mobilising millions of people who will fight for socialism. In Venezuela, the United States can only rely on fragments of parties, cobbled together through their fear of the revolution and gross material cravings.”

And President Chavez said the people of Venezuela were confident of the revolution because they knew their vote would be respected.

Labels: FIDEL CASTRO, VENEZUELA

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