Hugo Chavez defeats united opposition candidate 55 to 45 percent
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a dedicated Socialist, allied with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a close friend of Cuba’s Fidel and Raúl Castro. On Sunday he was elected to another six-year term, defeating the candidate of a united opposition by 55 to 45 percent.
During a TV interview on September 30, Chavez, said, “If I were American, I’d vote for Obama.” He called Obama ‘a good guy’ and said if the U.S. president were a Venezuelan, “I think… he’d vote for Chavez.”
In 1992, the former paratrooper led an unsuccessful coup d'état against the government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez. He was pardoned after spending two years in prison. Chavez was first elected president in 1998, taking office on February 2, 1999. On April 11, 2002, a group of high-ranking anti-Chávez military officers, who were backed by Venezuela’s business sector and encouraged by the U.S., overthrew Chavez in a coup. However on April 14, following mass demonstrations by Venezuela’s poor, Chavez, with the backing of other military officers and their troops, retook his presidency.
Chavez is the darling of the left. Hollywood activist Danny Glover joined Chavez on Sunday. But the folks that the Hollywood elite and other lefties claim to be standing up for are the very ones who will be hurt the most if Chavez ever decides to stop exporting oil to the U.S. That will drive the price of gas in the U.S. sky high, making it unaffordable for the poor and the working class.
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