Venezuelan opposition indisarray after Chavez referendum

[NeoConsSuck]

President Hugo Chavez's overwhelming victory in a recall referendum has left the opposition reeling, with some calling for protests and others for calm and a recount.

Chavez won 58% of the historic vote Sunday, not only surviving the effort to oust him but converting one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor" in his second term which ends in January 2007.

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While calling for reconciliation, Chavez also used his triumph to chide both the opposition and Washington.

"How is it possible that at this stage, some opposition leaders don't have the grace ... to accept that they did not succeed in recalling me?" Chavez said in a news conference. He called the result "an alternative to capitalism and false democracy."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-08-16-venezuela-support_x.htm

[chuck555]

1. They should be.

I guess Hugo is quicker than they thought.