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Venezuela Election Results: Hugo Chavez Declared Winner
President Hugo Chávez has retained power in Venezuela, after defeating opponent Henrique Capriles, by a comfortable victory of 900,000 votes.
Chávez, the longest serving president in Latin America, has been re-elected for the third time. His new term will be from 2013 to 2019. He was first elected to power in 1998.
Shortly after his victory was announced by Venezuela's National Electoral Council at 10:15pm local time, fireworks went off in several Caracas neighborhoods. Thousands of Chávez supporters in red shirts headed towards the Presidential Palace in Caracas to watch the socialist leader speak.
"The candidate of the right and his campaign team have just announced that they have recognized our victory," Chávez told an ecstatic crowd. "And that is a very important step towards the construction of peace and coexistence in Venezuela," added the president, whose politics have deeply polarized Venezuelan society.
Source and full story: ABC News, 7 Oct 2012
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Re: Venezuela Election Results: Hugo Chavez Declared Winner
The Jew Radonski had no chance, just like I said. The election turnout was huge. The masses were terrified that Radonski would make Venezuela into a U.S. puppet, with a massive gap betwen rich and poor. Those who voted for Radonski were in the upper and upper middle classes, plus a few from the lower classes who were tired of government bureaucracy under Chavez, and wanted some kind of change.
The USA put little money into Radonski's campaign, having known from the start that it would be pointless.
One thing that galls me is how the Western corporate media says that Chavez is only popular because he helps the poor, and distributes the oil wealth back to the people at large. As though that's a bad thing. As though Chavez is merely buying loyalty. But what is politics if it is not buying loyalty? The difference between nations is whose loyalty gets bought. The people or the elitists.