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Venezuela: Hannah Baldock report backup copy

google | 17.08.2004 01:13 | Venezuela

The Hannah Baldock report in the Independent on the Venezuelan recall referendum, which stated that "The mid-morning results showed that the opposition, already boasting an enormous 1,758,000 votes to Chavez's 798,000, is well on its way to reaching the target of 3.76 million votes it needs to oust the authoritarian, left-wing President.", seems to have disappeared from the independent's web site. So here's a google backup for history's sake.

This google cache address is of course highly volatile (will probably change in a few days' time):
 http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:7hS25WjSdZ4J:news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp%3Fstory%3D551867+hannah+baldock+venezuela&hl=en

Venezuela's Chavez on brink of referendum defeat
By Hannah Baldock

16 August 2004

The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, looked to be losing his grip on power last night as exit polls showed him to be trailing the opposition by almost a million votes.

The figures were early indications that, for the first time in the country's history, the President may have his term in office cut short by a referendum.

The mid-morning results showed that the opposition, already boasting an enormous 1,758,000 votes to Chavez's 798,000, is well on its way to reaching the target of 3.76 million votes it needs to oust the authoritarian, left-wing President. Turn-out for the referendum was high, with millions of Venezuelans queuing from the early hours at polling stations all over the oil-rich country to decide the political fate of the firebrand Mr Chavez.

The Venezuelan people are tensely awaiting a close-run and disputed result. In the capital, Caracas, government vans equipped with speakers drove through the poor residential districts in the east of the city at 5am, playing a military wake-up call before piping out popular pro-Chavez songs to voters, some of whom had in any case been up all night letting off fireworks, anticipating victory.

"Our commandante has already won," said Eric Caldera, a student queuing to vote against Mr Chavez's recall. "The rich people and TV stations are the only ones who say the opposition is going to win. They want to regain the power and privilege they had before, and loot the country. You can count the rich people on your hand, the poor you can't. They are too many. And they are with Chavez."

A clamorous cluster of opposition voters in Parroquia El Recreo voting station, central Caracas, rejected the pro-Chavez voters' arguments against them. "If Chavez wins we will paint the walls with 'No Future'. As no one will have a future, not us nor our children. We don't want a Cuba here," added Elsie Billar, 54, an accountant.

If, as looked likely last night, Mr Chavez loses, Vice-President Jose Rangel will take over until general elections are held in a month's time.

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Some comments on this story:
 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/8/15/205259/595

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was it printed in the paper today?

17.08.2004 02:08

i heard it was... and now they scrub it, oh dear oh dear

pescao


Thank You

17.08.2004 04:53

Thank you guys so much for keeping us up to date on the election with your comments. Many of us were up all night watching for the results and many of us saw the article in the Independent last night. This was clearly illegal and should be investigated. Thanks again for keeping us posted. Congratulations to Mr. Chavez.

cali
mail e-mail: barbs182y@aol.com


thank you for finding the back up

17.08.2004 05:29

Thanks for getting the back up. I read the original during the night and found it "replaced" the following morning. Brilliant! I was lecturing on the impact of media on democracy to my class, showed "the revolution will not be televised" and talked about the Independent article. Now I'll have something to pass out to my class. Viva Chavez!

Eric

Eric


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