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Chavez Seeks Military Role Amid Venezuelan Flood Disaster
President Chavez tours mudslide camps southeast of Caracas, rallying support as about 150,000 are left homeless. He orders seven bases to become shelters and pushes a plan to relocate hundreds of thousands to undeveloped southern plains and the eastern Amazon to curb urban crowding. Survivors praise his aid as the military expands its role in assisting the poor.
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Chavez
Edward Gomez
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Amazon Jungle
Jorge Giordani
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