One heck of a campaign rally! 500,000 marched for Manuel Rosales, who’s challenging Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez for the presidency in Caracas Saturday
Source, all photos: Globovision, which has more here

UPDATE: OK, it’s not millions. It’s half a million. (My original headline said ‘millions’) But it’s more than expected and it’s still huge, at least as big as the Los Angeles illegal immigrant rally last March. Caracas only has 6 million people, so this crowd represents about one out of every twelve caraquenos.

This story might speak for itself through its photos – what looks like millions of people – have marched across the 15-mile length of Caracas, from shantytown outskirt to big city skyscrapers to shantytown outskirt, on behalf of Manuel Rosales, who’s destroying Hugo Chavez at the polls. At long last, democracy may be coming to Venezuela. The mood is extremely upbeat. Rosales warns that this election is last chance to prevent Venezuela from becoming the next Cuba. Ironically, Hugo Chavez seemed to confirm this, hollering he wanted all the talent in the country to ‘go to Miami!’ Assuming no cheating goes on in the electronic voting machinery, this vote on Dec. 3 could cast Chavez out, shipping him to Havana, where Raul Castro doesn’t particularly like him. Today, it becomes harder for that expected fraud to happen. This is one heck of a massive rally.

Bloomberg has the news story here.

Daniel Duquenal at Venezuela News & Views has live-blogging of the event, plus a map, plus interesting little significant details only a Venezuelan would know, like the significance of the march’s end-point in Petare. It’s a must read here.

Alek Boyd, in one of his most brilliant pieces at VCrisis, has a description of just what’s going on in Venezuela right now, explaining why Rosales is ahead with just one month to go, and all the momentum building his way. It’s a must-see, must-read, here.

Reuters has a pretty good writeup of the march as it went in this post here.

UPDATE: Post continues here, with links to great photos.