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Chavez, Changing Tack, Dons Blue Shirt in `Message of Love'
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| News Date | Friday, October 20, 2006 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, losing ground in the polls to his main rival in the Dec. 3 presidential election, has changed his shirt from red to blue in campaign ads and begun preaching a new word: ``love.''
Chavez, who has called U.S. President George W. Bush ``the devil'' and the Roman Catholic Church ``a tumor,'' unveiled his ``Message of Love'' in TV and in newspapers last week.
``This color symbolism, this `love' nonsense, is what they've rolled out to soften the image of the rock star Hugo Chavez,'' said Riordan Roett, director of Latin American studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. ``Red is revolutionary. It communicates fire and brimstone. Blue is much more soothing, almost establishment-like.''
The new tack underscores Chavez's concern that his lead over opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, once seen as insurmountable amid an oil boom, is dwindling, Roett said. |
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