"Marisabel Rodriguez, 43, an attractive blonde former television anchor, has emerged as one of her ex-husband's Hugo Chavez's fiercest critics and is running for mayor in her home city of Barquisimeto in next Sunday's municipal elections.
Mrs Rodriguez played a key role in opposing her former husband's proposed president-for-life constitutional reforms last December, contributing to his embarrassing and unexpected defeat in the referendum he called to rubber stamp the changes.
In an apparent fit of pique, Mr Chavez filed a lawsuit in May for better visitation rights to see their daughter Rosines, 11, dominating headlines nationwide.
But he dropped the battle after Mrs Rodriguez, now married to a tennis coach, accused him of harassment and made him look like a selfish father using their child as a pawn in a messy family dispute.
Mr Chavez is also faced setbacks beyond his control. For he has long been able to use his country's glut of petrodollars to secure the support of the slum-dwelling poor with the medical and free meal programmes on which they depend to survive. But as world oil prices plummet, his scope for pursuing such projects will have to be curtailed."
Hence I suppose the Venezuelans in Niagaria Falls.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...Hugo-Chavez-faces-challenge-from-ex-wife.html
Mrs Rodriguez played a key role in opposing her former husband's proposed president-for-life constitutional reforms last December, contributing to his embarrassing and unexpected defeat in the referendum he called to rubber stamp the changes.
In an apparent fit of pique, Mr Chavez filed a lawsuit in May for better visitation rights to see their daughter Rosines, 11, dominating headlines nationwide.
But he dropped the battle after Mrs Rodriguez, now married to a tennis coach, accused him of harassment and made him look like a selfish father using their child as a pawn in a messy family dispute.
Mr Chavez is also faced setbacks beyond his control. For he has long been able to use his country's glut of petrodollars to secure the support of the slum-dwelling poor with the medical and free meal programmes on which they depend to survive. But as world oil prices plummet, his scope for pursuing such projects will have to be curtailed."
Hence I suppose the Venezuelans in Niagaria Falls.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...Hugo-Chavez-faces-challenge-from-ex-wife.html
