Chavez in campaign

Chavismo electoral campaigns are not what they used to be.  This picture in Tal Cual tells us how distant the president is getting and how sloppy his staff is getting.

In no particular order:

• The armored truck with probably a trap for Chavez to slide it in easily.  Not that I reproach him his security arrangement, he is the president after all, but if Chavez claims the opposition is always trying to kill him and that the opposition does not dare to campaign in slums of his adoring followers, what is he afraid of?  Or am I the only one in seeing that contradiction within his speech?
• It is a legislative election, remember?  You can easily recognize Chavez, you can easily see all sorts of cameramen putting up for prosperity the glories of the beloved leader but you can barely make out where the candidates are.
• Red shirted sanitary cordon on each side to make sure the beloved Supremo is, well, whatever...
• AND THE FUCKING TRASH that the advance team was not able to collect or hide!!!!!!  Eleven years in office and trash piles up in popular areas as if nothing ever happened....

Tal Cual writes that when Chavez is asked by the crowd about such problems as the garbage his reply has been "back after the 26" or something to that effect.....