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Venezuela's Chavez on brink of referendum defeat
Independent ^ | 8/16/04 | Hannah Baldock

Posted on 08/15/2004 5:42:56 PM PDT by francisurquhart

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=551867

There's the link to the article, apparently we can't post articles from The Indpendent directly.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: venezuela
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To: dodger fan

Even if oil prices were to raise with Chavez out, wouldn't you still want him out? BTW, welcome aboard.


61 posted on 08/15/2004 6:07:33 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: chilepepper


You'll be able to tell if he's out by the oil prices on the commodities market tomorrow morning. If Venezula starts selling to us again, that should help bring down the price...hopefully soon enough to help Pres. Bush, which by the way, is why the DUmmies are pulling for Chavez to stay in.


62 posted on 08/15/2004 6:08:24 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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I wonder if Zogby did the polling.


63 posted on 08/15/2004 6:08:57 PM PDT by Ravi (Jai Jindal)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Don't count on the oil supplies in Venezuela to stabilize right away if Chavez is ousted. He has taken over most of the state owned oil business and replaced intransigent executives and tanker crews with his own men. So, it will mean getting the real execs back in charge. Remember when the tankers shut down the supply by blocking the river, in protest over Chavez' policies? Well Chavez took care of them, now someone has to take care of the guys he put in place.


64 posted on 08/15/2004 6:08:57 PM PDT by Eva
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To: francisurquhart; All
Two important points:

(1) Chavez fired everyone in any kind of a management position in V's oil companies and put in his own people (re: Know-nothing Kommies an Leftists). This may explain current inefficiencies. It may take awhile to get things up to full bore again.

(2) Chavez also fired a lot of the intelligencia in V and invited in 10's of thousands of Cuban advisors (gladly provided by Castro) to help him run the country. All these clowns are going to have to be rooted out, put on a plane, and deported.

65 posted on 08/15/2004 6:09:22 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: francisurquhart

Jimma Crater was there making sure the election went as PLANNED. That said, he will report that a number of Chavez votes, exactly the number needed to give him a victory, were not allowed and therefore, HE WINS!!!!


66 posted on 08/15/2004 6:09:52 PM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism: A failure every time it is tried!)
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To: dfwgator
It won't take votes to remove Chavez, it's going to take tanks.

Right you are,the feces will hit the air circulator.

67 posted on 08/15/2004 6:11:07 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over our Military men and women who serve to keep us free.)
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To: Rome2000
Re: It won't come to that though, commies don't just walk out of office without some serious weaponry pointed their way.

Wow ! You were soooo right

Agence France-Presse | August 15, 2004 ONE person died and 10 others were wounded today when gunmen opened fire on voters just outside Caracas during a referendum on the mandate of Venezuela's controversial president, firefighters said.

68 posted on 08/15/2004 6:11:19 PM PDT by ChadGore (Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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To: Rome2000

Those guys are hilarious! Is the audio available on the internet anywhere?


69 posted on 08/15/2004 6:11:22 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Kerry: a strange man with nothing to say about anything that has happened since the early 1970s.)
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To: TheBigB
DUmmies are psychopathic, murderous, Communist filth.

All of them are are morons, Chavez at the top of the list, as evidenced by his unsecured phone conversations with fellow travelers.


70 posted on 08/15/2004 6:11:58 PM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: TheBigB
it's BUSH'S FAULT! :)

Like heck, buddy! It's the JOOOOOOOOOOOS -- ! < /sarcasm>

71 posted on 08/15/2004 6:12:38 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: ChadGore

$10 says that the point of this shooting (in an "impovrished" area") is to create a pretext to nullify the results of the referendum.


72 posted on 08/15/2004 6:13:11 PM PDT by francisurquhart (You might think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.)
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To: Southack
Chavez is the real deal; an open, out-of-the-closet socialist.

Perhaps you are right, for I don't recall Chavez ever making a quote "I was for socialism before I was against it", or visa versa.

73 posted on 08/15/2004 6:13:18 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Choose Ye This Day
More eye candy: . .

Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova says: "CHAVEZ OUT"
74 posted on 08/15/2004 6:14:13 PM PDT by ChadGore (Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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To: francisurquhart

'bout time that leftist a$#-clown got booted.


75 posted on 08/15/2004 6:16:01 PM PDT by ableChair
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To: ChadGore

Eye candy indeed, but too fake for me!


76 posted on 08/15/2004 6:16:57 PM PDT by ableChair
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To: ChadGore

I hope she doesn't run with those. She could fall and put her eye out. ;)


77 posted on 08/15/2004 6:17:58 PM PDT by TheBigB (I'm more frustrated than a legless Ethiopian watching a doughnut roll down a hill.)
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To: TheBigB

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan electoral officials on Sunday extended voting hours for the recall referendum on the rule of left-wing President Hugo Chavez until 12 a.m. to accommodate massive voter turn out.
Venezuela's National Electoral Council had earlier extended voting until 8 p.m. from the original closing time of 4 p.m.

In the past, Venezuelan polling stations have usually stayed open until 6 p.m.

Preliminary results could be released a few hours after the booths are closed if a clear tendency in the vote is apparent.

Huge lines of voters formed at ballot centers throughout Venezuela to answer the referendum question on whether they wanted to end the mandate of the populist president, whose rule has sparked an ongoing and often violent political conflict in the world's No. 5 oil exporter


78 posted on 08/15/2004 6:18:52 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
No, I've got it...

After he loses, Chavez will appear on state-run TV with Jimmeh Cahtuh, saying he has proof that hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan!

79 posted on 08/15/2004 6:19:26 PM PDT by TheBigB (I'm more frustrated than a legless Ethiopian watching a doughnut roll down a hill.)
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To: ableChair
Re: 'bout time that leftist a$#-clown got booted.

It's not official yet, but we have our fingers crossed for a free Venezuela.

a$# clown. . . . that's funny stuff . . I'd call him a cum bubble.

So much potential, but, ultimately just a stain.

80 posted on 08/15/2004 6:19:32 PM PDT by ChadGore (Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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