The beginning of the end? (UPDATED)
Exit polls have Chavez behind Capriles, 51.3% to 48.06%. In Spanish at ABC.es.
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Drudge reports via the AP that the Simian King has 'won' reelection.
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Well, our biggest fears have been realized...
Repùlbica Bananera o Muerte!
Yes they have Freedom. The problem is there aren't many real second chances once you let the dictator through the door.
The hardliner, intransigent Miami-Mafia proven right one more time...
He's been winning forever, hasn't he? Why should we expect it to be any different this time around? He's not gonna give it up via the ballot box or any type of open process: he's a despot, remember? Despots operate like Chicago thugs; power at any cost. It's a tragic sight to watch the country attempting to rid itself of a dictatorship by peaceful elections, when the other side doesn't play by any rules except its own. The Chicago way. Period.
USA, sit up and take notice, will ya?
When he dies, there'll be another election.
Meanwhile, tonight, I want to vomit.
I predict this will be the last Venezuelan election we will see with any opposition, and I fear we here are not far behind.
Okay, keeping in mind that I'm a white, square, non-Hispanic Midwesterner and no doubt out-of-touch with such things...can anybody around here please explain to me why there was so much speculation that Chavez might "lose" this "election"?
I mean, as I recall, the guy almost certainly stole an election six or so years ago, with the blessing of Jimmy Carter and other human parrots. Why were people expecting a different outcome this time? Did they think Chavez just woke up one morning and resolved to be honest?
But of course Chavez was going to win, did anybody doubt it? Los comunistas hacen trampas, y mucho más en America Latina. What I am afraid is that it's going
to happen here in the USA too! Como dice el refrán, cuando veas la barba de tu vecino arder, pon la tuya en remojo!
Qué desgracia, Dios mío.
Venezuelans still don’t get it, though maybe now they finally will. Hugo can’t be voted out. He controls the electoral apparatus, and people know their ballot is not secret, meaning there can be retribution for voting against Mr. Baboon. He has also bought out the military brass. In other words, Venezuelans are screwed, ultimately by themselves, as Cubans were. Unless the very fishy “cancer” story is true and the Bolivariasshole dies, they’re stuck with him and his disastrous policies, which will only get worse. The saddest part, perhaps, is that if Venezuelans had listened to the urgent warnings of people who'd been there and done that, “those people,” they could have avoided all this miserable shit. But, to put Che in his proper context, “Hasta la letrina siempre!”
I suppose that Payá's "Varela Project" in Cuba was even more naive than trying to vote Chávez out, but Venezuelans need to wake up and smell the rancid coffee. Remember what an old Cuban dictator said: "You don't oust me with slips of paper."
On Chavez’ reelection: He had lost the constitutional reform referendum; he had lost the latest election for the National Assembly, and on the gubernatorial elections he had lost key states, the most populous ones. So there seemed to be a chance. Even though the opposition admitted defeat yesterday I have my doubts about the numbers, because Chavez won by wide margins in almost all states where his people had lost before, and this at a moment when the country is in shambles: enormously high murder rates, frequent power failures, highest inflation on the continent, significant pollution from oil leaks, exploding refineries, collapsing bridges etc.
Leaving those doubts aside, Chavez is very charismatic (like Obama). That kind of charisma may be nauseating to me, but some people love it, and he has put cash directly in the hands of a lot of people who need it, and in exchange for very little (different from Obama?).
Capriles is charismatic also and really roused the energies of people who want to progress (word he used) and build their own futures, but it seems these are not the majority (sound familiar?), plus he had to go against the enormous power of the government in the media; Chavez also used public moneys for propaganda with no scruples whatsoever. Ramón Aveledo, coordinator of the opposition coalition, put it this way recently: “it has been a gigantic struggle, slow and tenacious, against a political adversary with a surplus of resources and a deficit of scruples. This has been truly a campaign of David against Goliath”. Even so votes for the opposition increased from 4 to 6.5 million.
The problem is not Chavez, but those who find him acceptable or better. It is they who hav screwed over Venezuela. Same as what happened in Cuba.