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Sunday March 10, 2013

Venezuela opposition picks Capriles as unity candidate


CARACAS: Venezuela's main opposition coalition has picked Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles as a unity candidate to run in the April 14 presidential election, an official said Saturday.

"We have unanimously agreed to offer the presidential candidacy... to the one who was our candidate in the recent (October) presidential election," said Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, executive secretary of the Democratic Unity Roundtable.

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