Chavez loses constitutional vote

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Chiron
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Chavez loses constitutional vote

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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez suffered a stunning defeat Monday in a referendum that would have let him run for re-election indefinitely and impose a socialist system in this major U.S. oil supplier.

Voters rejected the sweeping measures Sunday by a vote of 51 percent to 49 percent, said Tibisay Lucena, chief of the National Electoral Council. She said that with 88 percent of the votes counted, the trend was irreversible.

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Post by Spartan »

Excellent. Hopefully, he'll shut his piehole, but I guess that's pretty doubtful.
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Post by rgrking »

I'm just waiting for him to cut off the oil supply to the US that we get from him. He warned us and I'm sure he'll find a way to blame the US for it.
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Post by Nomad »

TC204 wrote:He'll just put on a military uniform like Musharraf and remain in power anyway.
Reading between the lines, I take it you would rather have seen Musharraf not take over?
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Post by CloakAndDagger »

Chavez is the type of guy to rig an election in his favor...that means this thing got majorly defeated!
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