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February 7, 2010

Difficult Year Ahead for Hugo Chavez

Casto Ocando, Miami Herald

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Marking 11 years in power this week and with a decisive Parliamentary election scheduled for late September, President Hugo Chávez faces his greatest crisis since the brief coup against him in 2002.

``This year will be a very difficult one and an uphill [battle] for Chávez, and he has little maneuvering room, because he is coming up against a huge crisis,'' said political analyst Manuel Felipe Sierra in Caracas.

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