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Sunday, August 15, 2004
Non-baseball: 'No Cuba here'
It looks like the Venezuelan people have followed in the footsteps of us Californians, and have ousted their un-popular, left-leaning leader. Exit polls are showing that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is well on his way to defeat in today's referendum. The early count has Chavez down by over a million votes.
Chavez thought himself something of a Robin Hood- stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. And while helping the poor majority of his nation is noble goal, completely destroying it's economy and middle-class was, in retrospect, not the smartest way to go about it. Many have compared him to Fidel Castro- which, given many of his policies, seems to be a fair characterization.
He's also been quick to blame all of his country's woes on America and regularly accuses his political opponents of working for the CIA, so I'm sure no tears are being shed in Washington tonight.
UPDATE: CNN is reporting that Chavez has won the election in a landslide. So either a) the independent was misinformed as to the early results, or b) something fishy is going on here.
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