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    "title": "Hugo Chavez Hit By Cuba's Surgical Strike",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2013-01-08 05:04:56 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is dying of cancer in Havana, in a live demonstration of Cuba's vaunted socialized medical care. He went there instead of Brazil because he wanted to make a political statement. What irony.</p>\n<p>As party cronies hover at his bedside, Cuban officials bark orders to the government in Caracas, and red-shirted Chavistas hold vigils, all signs are pointing to an imminent exit for the Venezuelan leader who controls a huge part of the world's oil.</p>\n<p>He's going out exactly as he wouldn't have liked -- helpless and at the mercy of doctors, a far cry from the blaze of heroic socialist glory he might have preferred.</p>\n<p>Most galling for him: It didn't have to happen this way.</p>\n<p>His expected demise will be entirely due to his gullibility to leftist propaganda and bad choices that came of it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010713-639640-castrocare-in-cuba-responsible-for-chavez-demise.htm\">Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Sinks On Credulity In Cuban Health Care - Investors.com</a>.</p>\n"
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