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June 11, 2001



Americas Chavez Urges Cuban-Style Neighborhood Groups

VOA News/ 11 Jun 2001 00:18 UTC

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is urging his supporters to set up Cuban-style neighborhood groups dedicated to backing his self-style revolution. On Sunday in his weekly radio address, President Chavez unveiled plans for new community groups, called Bolivarian Circles, to defend his leftist rule.

Mr. Chavez is a former army paratrooper elected president in a landslide victory in 1998. Since taking office, he has made sweeping political changes. His neighborhood initiative is similar to community groups in Cuba that defend one-party communist rule there.

President Chavez has dissolved congress and the judiciary, led efforts to rewrite the country's constitution and won fresh elections mandated in the new charter.

Mr. Chavez remains very popular with the country's poor and has governed virtually unopposed during his administration.

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