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Originally Posted by Imperator
high turn outs? 30% of his own didn't turn out.....yes, democracy in action....he has met the limits of his power....BUT alas, once he packs the military as he did the courts, I fear this will change....I don't quite think he is done yet...despite wrecking the food production and distribution network etc....egotistic dementia dies hard....
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Actually i did read that and was surprised given the high turn outs of previous elections. I think either his supporters became complacent or this was their way of protesting his constitutional reforms.
The democracy that i was impressed with though was the student movement in the urban centers. Had those students not organized, campaigned, and otherwise raised a bit of hell, Chavez would have won easily.
Andrew