Mr Capriles is a free market advocate, who argues that years of Mr Chavez's socialist rule must be reversed by facilitating private enterprise and investment.

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Ex-Im Bank financing has been used in recent years largely to level a global playing field made uneven by the market-distorting practices of other nations, and yet it has been subjected to much more intense criticism by free-enterprise proponents in Washington than the quasi-socialist practices of European governments subsidizing Airbus.

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While it's not fair to call Obama a socialist, it is fair to suggest he believes in private enterprise that is subordinate to government.

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