[dfwgator]

Here comes the Civil War.

[zarf]

Put the Red Cross on standby.

[Jet Jaguar]

That has not been the scuttlebutt around here.

[Simmy2.5]

And we all know that he was elected fairly. Especially with Jimmah Carter at the helm.

[Simmy2.5]

They're saying he won. Yet I don't see the results on how MUCH he won. Hmmmmmm.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Coup d'etat, ladies and germs ?

[GeronL]

I can't find this info online at google or deudge

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040816/ts_nm/venezuela_result_dc_5

Chavez Wins Venezuela Referendum-Preliminary Result

19 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!



CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has survived a referendum to recall him, according to preliminary results released by the country's top electoral officer on Monday.



National Electoral Council President Francisco Carrasquero said in a national broadcast the "No" option opposing Chavez's recall had obtained just over 58 percent of the vote, while the "Yes" vote obtained nearly 42 percent.


But two pro-opposition electoral officials questioned the result.


Shortly before Carrasquero made the announcement, two members of the five-member National Electoral Council leadership said they could not back the result.


Ezequiel Zamora and Solbella Mejias, both known opposition sympathizers, said procedural checks had not been carried out on the results as required.


"These partial results that part of the National Electoral Council wants to present to the public cannot be considered official," Mejias said.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Like Chavez, Carter is a socialist fraud, fake and phony. The upcoming bloody uprising is coming, and Bush will be blamed for it. Get ready for the headlines for the next two weeks. It's going to be nasty.

[Caipirabob]

I wonder how Venezuelan food tastes? We can expect the refugees to start arriving here in SoFlo any day now.</p.

[GeronL]

ABC Radio said that Chavez supporters were dancing in the street

[Arnold Zephel]

The government used a tactic employed by our own DemocRAT party by extended the polling hours not once but twice. Their excuse was that the the turnout was so great that it was necessary in order to make sure that everyone had an opportunity to vote. What it really accomplished was to provide Chavez time to stuff ballot boxes, round up drug addicts to vote, conveniently lose ballots, etc, etc

This has nearly escalated into revolution several times prior to today. There will be bloodshed. This is another debacle, in addition to terrorism, that we can thank Jimmy Carter for.

[Lazamataz]

Bullshit.

Exit polls had him at a 1,000,000 vote deficit.

Chavez is going to start killing to stay in power.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Whatever.

The Venezuelan vote was rigged.

So time for a patriotic coup d' etat necessary for national salvation.

Enough of this.

[OXENinFLA]

Venezuelan woman who is undergoing medical treatment in Cuba, marks her ballot in the recall referendum of President Hugo Chavez in the embassy of Venezuela in Havana, August 15, 2004. REUTERS/Rafael Perez

[John Jorsett]

As Edward G. Robinson's character says in Key Largo:

"Then after the election, we count the votes. And if they don't turn out right, we recount them. And recount them again. Until they do."

Exit polling had Chavez losing badly.

[wjcsux]

Let me guess. Hugo Chavez got 100% of the votes.

[MattinNJ]

Will a Franco or a Pinochet rise or will Venezuela go the way of Cuba?

[Carry_Okie]

He who counts the ballots...

[sully777]

Venezuela's Chavez May Overcome Recall Vote on Sunday (Update3)
by Alex Kennedy

SUNDAY Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gained support in opinion polls ahead of a weekend recall vote, prompting some investors to bet he will survive the referendum as he did a military coup in 2002 and an oil strike last year.

``We don't think the opposition will get enough votes to oust him,'' said Nicholas Field, who holds Venezuelan bonds among the $750 million of emerging market-debt he manages at WestLB Asset Management in London.

A victory for Chavez would boost confidence in Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest supplier of oil and a member of OPEC, because he has shown a commitment to paying interest on the nation's $22 billion foreign debt, said Field. Venezuela's benchmark bond due 2027 rose to a six-month high, climbing 0.1 cent to 91.4 cents on the dollar, according to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. at 4:30 p.m. in New York. The bond was at 76 cents in May.

Opinion polls by Consultores 21 and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. taken in July showed Chavez, a 50-year-old former lieutenant colonel who counts Cuban President Fidel Castro among his friends, improving his standing. Since the referendum was announced in June, Chavez has narrowed the gap with the opposition, making the election too close to call, said analysts at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and HSBC Holdings Plc.

Washington-based Greenberg's poll published last month showed 50 percent of ``likely'' voters would vote to recall Chavez compared with 62 percent in March.

Some polls surveying Venezuela's 14 million voters, including one published July 27 by Evans/McDonough Co. and Caracas-based Varianzas Opinion and commissioned by the state oil company, show Chavez winning Sunday's vote.

`Inevitable'

``Our victory is simply inevitable,'' Chavez said during a press conference in Caracas yesterday. ``Nothing can stop it...' (Excerpt)

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Looks like Jimmy Carter allows another Sandinista take-over, another Iranian Islamic Revolution, another Camp David Accord, and another Panama hand-over.

Chavez calls his victory before the election:

`Inevitable'

``Our victory is simply inevitable,'' Chavez said during a press conference in Caracas yesterday. ``Nothing can stop it...'