Venezuelan challenger: "Caracas needs solutions, not insults"

The opposition candidate remembers that President Hugo Chávez "rules since last century"

Henrique Capriles talked in low-income barrio La Cruz (Photo: Gustavo Bandres)

EL UNIVERSAL

Monday August 20, 2012 02:31 PM

"I gave my hand to 'El Flaquito'!" ("The Skinny," Henrique Capriles' nickname) I am not going to take a bath today!" says a brunette woman to herself. She speaks loudly enough to be heard at three meters, where a National Police motorized unit sees how part of the crowd separates after Capriles' speech in the shanty town La Cruz, in Santa Rosalía parish, downtown Caracas.

Henrique Capriles, cheered by young people, said that his team "plans to make Caracas a better city, as well as better citizens to everyone of you (...) This project represents the future, the new, the good, the things that need to be improved, the project to solve problems (...) Insults, rude words and disqualifications do not build anything. Caracas does not need insults. It needs solutions." He remembered that "we have a President that rules since last century and it is time for Venezuela to be in the 21st century, it is time for its future, it is time to start a better stage."

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