[AmericanMade1776]

Activist Ernesto Ackerman says the opposition does not trust Mr. Chavez' voting machines, and would prefer that each vote be counted by hand.

"What Chavez doesn't accept is a manual counting," Ackerman said. We want to count the votes one by one, manually. We don't want his machines."

U.S. Census figures indicate that more than 40,000 Venezuelans live in South Florida, and a total of 18,000 Venezuelans across the United States are registered to vote in the December elections.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-08-voa9.cfm

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I googled and found my answer. He's just another Socialist!


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=alLgjzXqLs5w&refer=latin_america

Exerpt:

"Rosales also criticized Chavez's foreign policy, saying oil and economic agreements entered by the government since 2000 go against the national interest. Another Chavez term would oversee the ``curtailing of our freedoms'' and the teaching of Marxist and other ideologies in schools, Rosales said."

Is he for or against Marxism???