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Your GPB news 5:30pm podcast for Friday, March 23, 2012

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Your GPB news 4:30pm podcast for Friday, March 23, 2012. Hosted by Orlando Montoya.

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In what’s poised to be one of Venezuela’s most heated elections in history, a young governor named Henrique Capriles will go up against the ailing President Hugo Chavez in October.

This week, Chavez criticized the opposition for burning election records to counter fears of government backlash. Parker Wallace reports on the ballot burning that recently took place in Cumming north of Atlanta, and the voter registration issues facing many of the estimated 3,000 Venezuelans living legally in Georgia.

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The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is set to adopt new rules protecting freshwater turtles from being taken from the wild. Georgia is the only state in the southeast without limits on the practice. If approved the changes would end years of unlimited turtle collection.

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