*Venezuelan elections for president will be convened for Sunday April 14th as announced today by Tibisay Lucena, who is president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the municipal elections are postponed to sometime in July as for now. * * * *Yesterday the opposition coalition (MUD) said they would not participate and late this afternoon they changed course and said they would.* * * *Nominations will be held by the parties (there are over 28 of them) within days.* * * *The consensus in the opposition seems to be that were not going to win a snap election amid this huge surge in sympathy for President Chávez and his memory * * * *April 14th is also the historic date and anniversary of the defeat of the 2002 reactionary coup that was backed by the US, IMF and assorted other junior imperialists.* * * *More details as they come available.* * * *Cort*
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