By Andrew Cawthorne and Mario Naranjo CARACAS (Reuters) – Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela's election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners still file past the late Hugo Chavez's corpse. Maduro, who was sworn in as acting president after Chavez succumbed to cancer last week, is seen as the favorite to win the April 14 election, bolstered by an oil-financed state apparatus and a wave of public sympathy over Chavez's death. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-opposition-leader-joins-presidential-race-004657986.html

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