Venezuelan Seeks to Revive Anti-Chavez Movement

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They range from wealthy businessmen to boisterous students and poor single mothers, jammed together 10,000 strong in a stadium, chanting “change is possible!” and shoving forward to greet the man who is challenging President Hugo Chavez’s grip on power.

There’s a problem, however: Leopoldo Lopez can’t run for office.

Like many of Chavez’s opponents, some of whom are in jail or have fled the country, Lopez is barred as a candidate because of a government corruption probe against him.

It’s a tactic critics say Chavez uses to put his opponents’ political ambitions on indefinite hold as he heads into next year’s congressional elections and his own re-election campaign in 2012.

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