Venezuela Pro-Freedom Anti-Chavez Rallies(BBC)

Mass Venezuela opposition rally
By Greg Morsbach
BBC News, Caracas

Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in support of the main opposition candidate, Manuel Rosales.
Mr Rosales will face President Hugo Chavez in December's presidential poll.

The march, which filled the main avenues of the city centre, was the biggest opposition rally Venezuela has seen since early 2004.

Then, protesters made an unsuccessful bid to oust Mr Chavez from power in a recall referendum.

Chance to unite

Young and old took to the streets to throw their weight behind the campaign of Mr Rosales, a middle-class Social Democrat who governs the state of Zulia, on the Colombian border.

Many claimed that they were seeking liberty and democracy and that made Mr Rosales their only option...

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Caracas - The main opposition candidate in Venezuela's December elections, Manuel Rosales, was greeted by tens of thousands of supporters at his first rally in Caracas.

Venezuelans would have to choose between 'freedom and dictatorship, between peace and war' in the December 3 poll, Rosales said in a speech in the centre of the capital on Saturday.

Rosales described the government of President Hugo Chavez as the 'clown of the communist and totalitarian' regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and said Venezuela was being governed from Havana.

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