Reply #9: AP: "As many as 500,000 supporters" [View All]

While the US media whores ALWAYS try to play down the support for Hugo Chavez.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez celebrated the midpoint of his six-year term Saturday by telling hundreds of thousands of supporters he would not bow to efforts to oust him through the ballot box.

As many as 500,000 supporters gathered on a downtown avenue, according to Caracas fire officials, to hear Chavez and to rebuff an opposition push for a referendum on Chavez's rule. Organizers claimed as many as 3 million people were present.

"Victory is ours, whatever the cost!" Chavez told the cheering crowd. "We are prepared for any sacrifice to fulfill our promise to Venezuela. Long live the revolution!"

Many wore red shirts and berets identifying them with Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution," a left-wing movement the president and his backers claim is aimed at redressing the inequalities of wealth

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