Chavez loses constitutional vote
CARACAS, Venezuela - Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state...
...Foes of the reform effort — including Roman Catholic leaders, media freedom groups, human rights groups and prominent business leaders — said it would have granted Chavez unchecked power and imperiled basic rights.
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I understand that Chavez and Bush have a hard-on for each other but from the average Venezuelan citizen's P.O.V., why is this Chavez guy who provides government housing for poor people a bad guy and how did the Venezuelan opposition manage this startling achievement of handing Chavez his first major defeat? And when it comes time for him to leave office (2012), will he go?
...Foes of the reform effort — including Roman Catholic leaders, media freedom groups, human rights groups and prominent business leaders — said it would have granted Chavez unchecked power and imperiled basic rights.
READ MORE HERE
I understand that Chavez and Bush have a hard-on for each other but from the average Venezuelan citizen's P.O.V., why is this Chavez guy who provides government housing for poor people a bad guy and how did the Venezuelan opposition manage this startling achievement of handing Chavez his first major defeat? And when it comes time for him to leave office (2012), will he go?
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