Chavez Re-elected

Submitted by fyl on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 04:06.

I haven't seen this in any publications yet but here are a couple of tweets. (Interesting that news comes from tweets by presidents these days.)

Cristina Fernandez ‏@CFKArgentina

Felicitaciones al pueblo venezolano por la ejemplar jornada democrática. Por la alegría y por la paz. El amor es más fuerte que el odio.

Rafael Correa ‏@MashiRafael

Chávez vencedor con casi 10 puntos de diferencia! Viva Venezuela, viva la Patria Grande, viva la Revolución Bolivariana!

‹ Che's Bolivia Diary Carter on Venezuelan Election System ›

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voting

Submitted by carloswentmissing on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 10:01.

vote early ...& ...vote often...same as certain places/areas/cities in the good old....

In Chicago maybe

Submitted by fyl on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 11:45.

Probably still works in Chicago, Dade County Florida, ... but it sounds like it doesn't work that way in Venezuela. See this thread.

Here's a nice selection...

Submitted by Juanno on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 07:11.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19867445

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/americas/venezuela-presidential-...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/10/20121082737435876.html?ut...

http://rt.com/news/chavez-capriles-venezuela-elections-873/

truthfully..

Submitted by acc724 on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 07:55.

any one think he wouldnt be re-elected

50-50

Submitted by fyl on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 08:03.

The numbers were projected to be close. This was similar to the Ortega-Chamorro contest in Nicaragua. All the opposition, while not in any way in agreement with each other on everything else, were united (with some external help) in an "anyone but Ortega" campaign. In Nicaragua, it worked much to the surprise of many.

The main difference, as I see it, is that there has been no externally-funded war in place to take down what Chávez has been doing. In Nicaragua, no more war was probably more important than no more Ortega.

That was pretty much what an anthropologist in Managua said

Submitted by oncidiumfan on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 13:21.

He wrote that in the year before the presidential elections, the local community organizations were electing grandmothers over the FSLN younger more Marxist types. He said also that when Chamorro won, nobody set off fireworks and the mood was like at a funeral. His impression was that the draft and the war were the reasons people voted for what they knew was the US's candidate. The war would stop; the draft would stop. And the economy would be less stressed. But nobody was celebrating, at least not where he was.

Rebecca Brown

I guess fyl did open the door,

Submitted by Juanno on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 13:45.

As he often does to his own posts. Like a suicide hijacker I guess.

Personally, I disagree with the comparison he made by saying apart from the war it has similarities.

Previous Elections

Submitted by Juanno on Mon, 2012/10/08 - 11:36.

1998 Presidential Election Results

Hugo Chávez - Fifth Republic Movement 56.20%

Henrique Salas Römer - Project Venezuela 39.97%

2006 Presidential Election Results

Hugo Chávez (Fifth Republic Movement) 62.84%

Manuel Rosales (A New Era) 36.9%

2012 Presidential Election Results

Hugo Chavez 54%

Henrique Capriles Radonski 44%.

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