Chavez: Dissident party has joined opposition/Hugo Chávez arremete contra partido disidente

President Hugo Chavez lashed out Wednesday at former political allies who have distanced themselves from him, accusing them of joining Venezuela's opposition ahead of September congressional elections. Chavez harshly criticized Fatherland For All, a leftist party that had traditionally supported the president's socialist government, calling its leaders traitors and predicting its candidates will be defeated in the Sept. 26 vote. "They are allied with the right wing," Chavez said, speaking to members of his ruling party. "The reformists can stay behind. Here we have true revolutionaries."( full information)/ El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, criticó ayer a los dirigentes de un partido que se distanció del gobernante, acusándolos de unirse a la oposición de cara a los comicios legislativos de septiembre. Chávez criticó duramente a Patria Para Todos (PPT), un partido de izquierda que había apoyado tradicionalmente al gobierno, tildando de "traidores" a sus líderes y vaticinando que los candidatos presentados por esa organización ahora disidente serían derrotados en las elecciones del 26 de septiembre, por abandonar sus principios revolucionarios ( información completa)