(Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition voted on Sunday in an primary election to pick a candidate to face socialist leader Hugo Chavez in an October 7 presidential ballot. The former soldier has ruled for 13 years and is leading in the polls ahead of the general election. He has vowed to win a new six-year term despite undergoing cancer surgery last June. Here are some key facts about Chavez: * Born to a poor family in the Venezuelan plains, or "llanos," on July 28, 1954, Chavez once aspired to be a painter and then a professional baseball player. ...
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