Opposition are 'heirs to Hitler'- Maduro
VENEZUELA: Interim president Nicolas Maduro, heir to the late
Hugo Chavez, on Saturday attacked supporters of his rival in the April
14 presidential election as being the "heirs of Hitler." The leftist
Chavez died on March 5 and his vice-president, Maduro, must now run for
office in a special election to complete the late leader's term.
His rival is Henrique Capriles, candidate of the unified opposition
and the man the cancer-ridden Chavez defeated in an October vote. The
opposition, Maduro said, are the "heirs of Hitler" because they are
conducting a campaign of "intolerance" by criticizing the presence of
Cuban doctors in Venezuela and local artists that have joined the Maduro
campaign.
Capriles ran a positive campaign against Chavez in October, even as
the leftist president slammed him as a pampered member of the "rancid
oligarchy" taking orders from Washington.
But with Chavez gone, Capriles -- who is Catholic but has Jewish
roots -- is tearing into Maduro, who he derides as a cheap Chavez clone
and a puppet of Havana.
AFP |