Venezuela announces snap presidential election for April 14

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Venezuela announced Saturday that it will hold a presidential election to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez on April 14 after his political heir took office. The national electoral council set the date one day after Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor, was sworn in as acting president in a ceremony largely boycotted by the opposition, which slammed it as unconstitutional. Read full article

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British_Kirchnerist
The opposition are clutching at straws. Looking forward to the Maduro landslide=)
Mar 10th, 2013 - 03:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
Look at this link for Justin Timberlake taking the piss out of Chavez. LOLs

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/126038/justin-timberlake-mocks-chávez

Ex Bs As Herald.
Mar 10th, 2013 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
ChrisR

I LOVED THAT!

Always a fan of Timberlake but now even more so.

Also is a Maduro landslide a “madslide”? Just wondering. LMAO
Mar 10th, 2013 - 11:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Stevie
“Always a fan of Timberlake”

Timberlake - That's culture!!
Mar 11th, 2013 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Christ who said anything about culture?

I wanna get in his pants!

Jeez Stevie, keep up!
Mar 11th, 2013 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Stevie
Anglolatino
We know you are gay and respect your sexuality. But you don't have to share your sexual aspirations with us, we simply don't care.
Mar 11th, 2013 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
5 Anglotino

Now you've done it.

You have embarrassed our one and only “Citizen Of The World”.

I bet he didn't know where to look.

I wonder if he needs to come out of the closet.
Mar 11th, 2013 - 04:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
I know Chris. He seems very much the 'don't be seen or heard' sort of person doesn't he.

All week he's been running all around the fora with a chubby for chubby so to speak! He attempted to denigrate me and it backfired spectacularly.

Thanks for the video again, I have on posted this for a laugh. Most of my Colombian friends with a high level of English got it first time around.
Mar 11th, 2013 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
Sorry to see Timberlake do that, his film In Time, where time was literally money, was a great piece of socialist propaganda imho. To go from such clarity and anger about inequality, to this mockery of a fallen hero of the poor, what a shame...
Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@9 BSK

Just grow up, you are embarrassing yourself.
Mar 15th, 2013 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
How? Did you see the film? It was great, not sure if you'd have liked it though...
Mar 15th, 2013 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@11 BSK

I posted the film you twit, can't you keep up?
Mar 16th, 2013 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
#12 Not THAT film silly! I was talking about “In Time”, a dystopian sci-fi film he was in where lifetime was literally the currency; the contrast between the lives of the poor (one powerful scene sees the Timberlake character's mother drop down dead for being literally seconds late for an appointment with him to top up her lifetime) and the rich who gamble with thousands of years, and the brutality of the systems enforcers, is all a powerful analogy of neoliberal capitalism and argument for socialism. Pity he didn't think more about the material himself before mocking the hero of the poor while he was still warm in his coffin...
Mar 19th, 2013 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@13 BSK

Pardon me, are you on our planet?
Mar 19th, 2013 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Oh BK thinks actors are being real when they act!

BK, Timberlake was P.R.E.T.E.N.D.I.N.G. when he was in that movie.

You might also want to look at how wealthy the Chavez and Kirchner families have become in power. And how poor they have made their populations.

Both countries need a Timberlake movie character to come along methinks.
Mar 19th, 2013 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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