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Result of the referendum in Venezuela

we are everywhere | 16.08.2004 08:34 | Venezuela | Social Struggles

The result of the referendum is a victory for Chavez and the bolivarian revolution: 58% voted for the NO (to the rejection of Chavez). People celebrating on the street.

The official result, given just a few minutes ago, is 58% for the NO (means for Chavez). But this is just counting the votes of poeple that voted by machines. There are quiet a lot more votes from people that live in rural areas and that voted by paper that had not yet been counted. In these areas people are very poor and mostly on the side of the government. So the final result will be probably more than 60%. The opposition wants negociations because of the "small differennce", but people don`t accept that. The question is now if the opposition accepts the result or not. There are tens or eveen hundreds of thousend people out on the street right now, celebrating the victory of the revolution.

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16.08.2004 09:00

Well thats good, 'cos I'm going out there to work, and I'd be bloody pissed off if it was Peres rather than Chavez in charge when I got there.

I'm really glad. I hope it doesn't turn violent now, though. I think it would be the last thing the US want, however, after having fucked up all their other oil suppliers.

Great


Chavez is like Mugabe a tyrant

16.08.2004 09:15

President Chavez is just like Robert Mugabe a tyrant who has brought his country to brink of bankruptcy and starvation. Military action is needed to rescue the country of Venezula for his despotic corrupt, evil regime.

realist


Too bad, realist...

16.08.2004 09:56

It's well too late for your misplaced, ill-informed
and to be honest, insignificant opinion, realist.

Can't win 'em all hey :)

Victory to Chavez and the Venezuelan people!

Red Istribute


election

16.08.2004 10:16

We--the American people--are completing amazed at the percent of voters that have registered their vote in this referendum. We can learn so much from you and the democratic way that the people of Venequela have shown their interest in their government. We in the United States should look to you as an example in our coming elections.

shirley mccaughey


the people have got it wrong and must be replaced

16.08.2004 10:16

Mr Realist is as right as ever. By voting the wrong way the people of Venezuala have demonstrated that they themselves are the greatest threat to their own democratic rights.

The US must invade to get rid of this corrupt and undemocratic population and replace them with better people who can be relied on to vote how we tell them.

;-)


no more invasion for oil!

16.08.2004 11:44

no more invasion for oil!
go home! robbers!
let the world live and go home!

frédéric


¡Qué viva Chávez!!

16.08.2004 11:51

"Ha muerto la IV República, Venezuela cambió para siempre"

¡Que viva Cuba, Que viva Venezuela, territorios libres de America!!

chavista


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