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Mayor Manny Diaz SENDS LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH CONCERNING POLITICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS IN VENEZUELA

I have watched the events in Venezuela unfold during the past weeks and have become increasingly worried about the future of democracy in that country. The latest cause for alarm has been the arbitrary disqualifications of 272 candidates who would otherwise be eligible to run for office in the upcoming elections, simply because they are opposed to the current government. This is a blatant disregard of the Venezuelan constitution, and an attempt against democracy as a whole in our hemisphere.

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