A Venezuelan opposition candidate on Sunday won an election for governor of Barinas state, the birthplace of the late former leader Hugo Chavez, bringing an end to 22 years of Socialist party rule there.
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Venezuela’s government risks humiliation Sunday as voters infuriated by fuel shortages threaten to throw out the ruling party in the hot, cattle-farming region where the father of the nation’s socialist revolution was born.
Barinas state in western Venezuela wa
BARINAS, Venezuela (AP) Voters in the home state of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chávez are casting ballots again Sunday in a special gubernatorial election called after the opposition contender in November’s regular contest was retroactively disqualified as he was ahead in the vote count.
BARINAS (Reuters) - An election re-run to decide the governor of Venezuela's Barinas state, the birthplace of former President Hugo Chavez and stronghold of the country's ruling party, began at 6 a.m. (1000 GMT) on Sunday.
BARINAS -Voters in Venezuela s Barinas state, a stronghold for the ruling Socialist party and birthplace of deceased former President Hugo Chavez, went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new governor.