From the BBC: "Ex-White House aide Oliver North - at the centre of a 1980s scheme to finance Contra rebels in Nicaragua - has warned the country not to return to the past.

Mr North said he hoped voters would not elect ex-Sandinista leader and former President Daniel Ortega - whom the rebels sought to topple."

Faced with the Chavista slogan of "10 million votes" (a.k.a. "10 million down their throats")  the opposition campaign did the only thing they could at the time: they pointed out that the embracing of 10 million votes is a divisive gesture. (more…)