Hugo Chávez re-elected in Venezuela

[TheAeroplane]

Chávez Wins a Third Term in Venezuela Amid Historically High Turnout

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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez, long a fiery foe of Washington, won re-election on Sunday, facing down cancer and the strongest electoral challenge of his nearly 14 years in office and gaining a new mandate to deepen his socialist revolution.

Though his margin of victory was much narrower than in past elections, he still won handily. With 90 percent of the votes tallied, Mr. Chávez received 54 percent, to 45 percent for his opponent, Henrique Capriles Radonski, the national election commission said. Fireworks erupted in Caracas after the news, and Chávez supporters celebrated in the streets.

Still, after a spirited campaign, the polarizing Mr. Chávez finds himself governing a changed country. He is an ailing and politically weakened winner facing an emboldened opposition that grew stronger and more confident as the voting neared, and at times seemed to have an upset victory within reach.

Mr. Chávez has said that he would move forward even more aggressively to create his version of socialism in Venezuela in a new six-year term, although his pledges were short on specifics.

His health, though, remains a question mark. He has undergone several rounds of treatment for cancer in the last fifteen months, but has refused to make public essential details of his illness. If he overcomes the disease and serves out his new term to its end in 2019, he will have been in power for two full decades.

For the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/wo...pagewanted=all

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[TuralyonW3]

OLE

[hnibos]

Arepas for all!

[Tchocky]

Ugh...

[Trotskilicious]

joo know joo could have a fountain that looks like chavez's head, and the water would come out of his mouth so that he is always spitting at joo all the time

[MyOneAndOnly]

In the 90s I got a Chavez campaign T Shirt from a friend who was living in Venezuela. It was right at the beginning of Chavez's rule and at the time he had massive public support in Venezuela. While he's always been hated here, he was seen early on by most working class and poor people in the country as a positive figure. I used to wear that T Shirt occasionally but it's kind of Commie (all red and with a Chavez campaign slogan an his face on it). A latino guy got up in my face once when i was wearing it so I put it away and haven't worn it since.

when i was in college i had one of those stupid Che Guavara t shirts and everyone thought that was cool as hell.

I guess communist dictators and militants are only cool when they're dead.

[TheAeroplane]

People tend to idealize dead revolutionaries: Lenin, Jose Marti, Simon Bolivar, Mao, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Malcom X, etc.

[Trotskilicious]

some of those aren't like the others, but it's good you can list a bunch of names