President Hugo Chavez launched a new series of newspaper columns on Thursday by urging Venezuelan voters to let him seek re-election indefinitely _ and pledging to leave at the end of his term in 2013 if they turn him down.
The Venezuelan leader also vilified his opponents as "colonialists" and "little Yankees" beholden to U.S. interests.
The column titled "Lines from Chavez" appeared in several Venezuelan newspapers for the first time and it is scheduled to appear three times a week. Chavez's friend and mentor, Fidel Castro of Cuba, also has written frequent newspaper columns over the past year.
Chavez, who has been …
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