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Chavez loses vote on new powers in Venezuela
Reuters ^ | Mon Dec 3, 2007 12:32am ET

Posted on 12/02/2007 9:37:41 PM PST by james500

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lost a tight vote on Sunday in a referendum on giving him new powers and scrapping term limits on his left-wing rule.

The national electoral authority said early on Monday the "No" camp won 51 percent of the vote compared to the pro-Chavez "Yes" camp's 49 percent.

It said the trend could not be reserved and declared Chavez the loser.

The referendum vote on a raft of reforms would have allowed Chavez to run for reelection indefinitely, control Venezuela's foreign currency reserves, appoint loyalists over regional elected officials and censor the media if he declares an emergency.

Chavez has said he wants to rule for life and turn Venezuela into a socialist state. But defeat will likely put the Cuba ally under intense pressure to slow or halt his self-declared socialist revolution and step down when his term ends in 2013.

Chavez called the referendum vote "a photo finish".

(Additional reporting by Fabian Andres Cambero, Patricia Rondon and Jorge Silva, Writing by Saul Hudson; Editing by Kieran Murray)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: breakingnews; chavez; hasthearmyvotedyet; venezuela
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To: james500

I believe that a miracle happened.


121 posted on 12/03/2007 4:32:03 AM PST by sport
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To: sport
The "miracle" would be if he didn't wreck havoc with the few years he has left.

sw

122 posted on 12/03/2007 4:37:52 AM PST by spectre (spectre's wife (It's Illegal immigration, Stupid)
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To: jan in Colorado

I’m only shocked he didn’t pay better attention to the Stalinist guide to “voting” (he still has time).


123 posted on 12/03/2007 4:45:05 AM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade™ © ®)
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To: james500

Color me surprised! I figured for sure with him counting the votes there was no way he could lose. Wonder if the will do what all good democrats everywhere do, keep counting until they win?


124 posted on 12/03/2007 4:48:31 AM PST by engrpat
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To: boop

The real vote was probably 2-1 against him and he was prepared for 3-2.


125 posted on 12/03/2007 4:49:44 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them OVER THERE than to have to fight them OVER HERE!)
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To: Darkwolf377

He can probably repeat his referendum annually or even monthly until he gets his vote prep right.


126 posted on 12/03/2007 4:51:47 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them OVER THERE than to have to fight them OVER HERE!)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

The Chavez opposition might concede defeat just to get him to “shut up”!(sarcasm on)


127 posted on 12/03/2007 4:56:47 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: james500; All
OK Photoshoppers, time to take the original image from 2000 of that bald guy with the crossed eyes looking at a hanging chad ballot. Place Hugo in the background, as the guy, whatever.

Get to work.

That is all.

128 posted on 12/03/2007 5:07:06 AM PST by Mr. Jazzy (Very Proud Dad of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, back in the U.S.A.!!!)
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To: james500

Excellent news. The clown dictator lost this one.


129 posted on 12/03/2007 5:16:02 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: REDWOOD99

Sean Penn and Hollywood are in grieving.


130 posted on 12/03/2007 5:31:13 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: james500

HA HA!

131 posted on 12/03/2007 5:34:35 AM PST by Tatze (I'm in a state of taglinelessness!)
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To: MHT
Maybe he can be like the Dems and find a few ballot boxes that were apparently forgotten.

I hear some of New Jersey's finest political minds are headed down there to assist with the recount...

132 posted on 12/03/2007 5:40:55 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Actress from the 80’s and early 90’s. Was the female officer that worked with anny Glover in “Predator 2” and Sean Penn’s hispanic girlfriend in “Colors”. Was in several more movies and preiodically still acts.


133 posted on 12/03/2007 7:41:56 AM PST by jrooney (Ron Paul makes Jimmy Carter look tough and Dennis Kucinich look sane.)
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To: jan in Colorado

Chill...this too will be rectified posthaste! ;*)


134 posted on 12/03/2007 9:41:47 AM PST by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Just Lori

LOL!


135 posted on 12/03/2007 9:42:57 AM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: Michael81Dus
Here we are, and here we stand, a veritable rock of salvation in this drifting world.

Winston Churchill really knew how to write and speak. Now we have inarticulate soundbites and ghost writers.

136 posted on 12/03/2007 5:53:08 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: james500
Congratulations, people of Venezuela.

Too little too late. Who put/elected this nut in that position?! Huh? Now they finally saw his true colors and are running scared too death! 51% to 49% is too thin for a strong rebuttal to Chavez.

Watch him in the next 5 Years chewing his 49% in to Socialism/Communism Shangri-La and nobody is going to do squat!
Let's have this discussion 2 Years from now!

137 posted on 12/03/2007 6:08:35 PM PST by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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To: james500

His term finishes in 2013?????

This means nothing then.


138 posted on 12/03/2007 7:17:10 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: danmar

“Too little too late. Who put/elected this nut in that position?! Huh?”

Too late for what? Sounds kinda melodramatic. The Venezuelan people who voted for Chavez put him in that position. You think Venezuelans are the only people to elect reckless charismatic populists? This slim victory went a long way in emboldening the opposition. That should be encouraged. He’ll break apart his “reform package” and some will pass, some won’t. But before Venezuela starts looking anything remotely like Zimbabwe, Chavez will find himself on the losing end of a coup.


139 posted on 12/03/2007 8:50:00 PM PST by james500
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To: james500
But before Venezuela starts looking anything remotely like Zimbabwe, Chavez will find himself on the losing end of a coup.

You think so, huh!...reread the latest news coming out of that paradise...he already tighten the grip on the Press, and monopolized the Oil Industry under his command and a host of other "little" measures to entrench himself as a "El Commandant" as required in those South American Banana Republics.
Talk to me in 2010.

140 posted on 12/03/2007 9:05:56 PM PST by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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