Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, bête noire of the Bush administration and target of terrorist death threats by Pat Robertson, has won re-election, reports Bloomberg [1]. Chavez has achieved some local notoriety for calling chimp boy 'the devil' at the United Nations, and by making cheap heating oil available to poor residents of the Bronx and Harlem; both these things are just not done in the era of conservative government.
Chavez took 61 percent of the vote while opposition candidate Manuel Rosales took 38 percent, based on 78 percent of the votes counted by the National Electoral Council.
"I surrender myself to the Venezuelan people," Chavez told backers who crowded around the Presidential Palace in Caracas. He sung [sic] the national anthem from the palace balcony as fireworks lit up the sky. "Long live Venezuela. Long live the Socialist Revolution. Long Live Bolivar [2]."
Not so sure about the socialist revolution part, but the guy has cut his country's poverty rate from 55% to 38%, and is a constant irritant of the Bush administration and its terrorist allies Robertson and Coulter; so it appears likely that certain more colorful parts of the political spectrum will be tearing their hair out tonight, again.
Too bad, really.
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