Obama Finds Support among Chavez Faithful in Caracas

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By Girish Gupta



                              

 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a Caracas slum, 70-year-old Miguel Bigello relays his backhanded support for Barack Obama.

 The elderly man is an avid supporter of Chavez, his "Comandante," and in the small wooden hut sits a carving of the face of Che Guevara as well as a poster depicting Latin American independence hero Símon Bolívar.

Barack Obama received a somewhat surprising endorsement in early October when Hugo Chavez called said, "I did vote Obama." In 2009,Chavez shook hands with the president and gave him the book "Open Veins of Latin America:Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" during a summit

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