Hugo Chávez Begins 4-Day TV Marathon; Castro Envious
Today marks Day 3 of a four-day television marathon hosted by President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, surpassing anything the loquacious leader has ever done before. Chávez first went on the air this week on Thursday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his Alo Presidenteprogram which first aired after he took power in 1999. “Hello President” has long been Chávez’s media vehicle for maintaining his popular base with the Venezuelan people, and countering what he considers one-sided attacks from the country’s privately-owned media. The program has proven so successful that other Latin American leaders have emulated the effort in Mexico and Ecuador, and none other than the notoriously long-winded Fidel Castro of Cuba praised Chávez for spending 1,536 hours over the past decade promoting his revolution on TV.
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