Massive Rally in Venezuela to Support Absent Chavez on Inauguration Day

2013-01-12 · first published in Venezuelanalysis · 98 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

As credited on the page: “link to venezuelanalysis.com”

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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By Chris Carlson ( Venezeuelanalysis )

Punto Fijo, January 10 th , 2013 – Tens of thousands of supporters gathered in Caracas today for a massive rally in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and in response to the controversy surrounding his absence on the January 10 th inauguration day.

Still in Havana recovering from surgery, the Venezuelan head of state could not be present for the customary swearing-in before the National Assembly. The absence has generated much controversy among the Venezuelan opposition, who claim that the current government should not continue in power without the inauguration ceremony.

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