If you’ve stopped by my blog before, you know I’ve kept some tabs on Venezuela and it’s dictator-in-the-making. It seems that he isn’t quite ready to don the mantle of supreme leader and his countrymen have said so…
Official: Chavez loses referendum vote via Hot Air. They have handed him a serious defeat in front of the whole world. But he has until 2013 to undo this election and get himself made president for life. He lost tonight, but I doubt that he’s finished. Can he recover? Hopefully, the answer to that question will be the same as the one that a majority of Venezuelans delivered this time: NO.
Even the boss himself admitted that he may have misjudged and taken everything too quickly. Ya think???
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Humbled by his first electoral defeat, 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.
“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reform by 51 percent to 49 percent.
What does that mean for us? Well, perhaps our oil prices may drop, we can forget that “oil war” he promised us, and that the coalition of “axis-type” states he was cobbling together may fall apart.
I’m off to find out what his partner in crime (Ahmadinejad) has to be saying about the whole thing…
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