Margarita Fuenmayor offered her house to be a polling station in the primaries called by the opposition in Venezuela. It was a last-minute decision in defiance of the "intimidations" of pro-government activists in the working class neighborhood where she lives. Neighbors accompanied elderly people -- and even hoisted disabled people -- up the narrow stairs leading to Fuenmayor's home, in Los Magallanes de Catia, a bastion of the ruling leftist party in Caracas. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES