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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez going down? Update: Chavez wins; tanks in streets

Matt Drudge links to a report from Madrid’s ABC.es that longtime Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez may be ousted in today’s presidential vote. The agency reports that exit polling shows challenger Henrique Capriles leading Chavez by a three-point margin of 51.3% to 48.06%.

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The mood in Venezuela is reportedly tense, as people wait to see whether Chavez’s grip on power has finally been released:

Today’s election is being closely watched in Congress. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,  tweeted about an interview she gave regarding the vote:

And members of Congress aren’t the only U.S. residents paying close attention. Today’s vote has brought many Venezuelans living in the U.S. to the polls:

https://twitter.com/VzlaEmbassyUS/status/255014225448165377

If Chavez is finally beaten, there’ll be no one sadder than his liberal buddies in Hollywood.

Penn and Glover were brave to go to a dangerous place like Venezuela to campaign for Chavez, while Chavez fan Kevin Spacey apparently wasn’t able to make it. Of course, it’s worth noting that it’s been much more dangerous to oppose Chavez than to support him:

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Was the election clean? Well, just a few weeks ago, none other than former U.S. President Jimmuh Carter reported the Venezuelan electoral process to be “the best in the world” — definitely better than  the corrupt system in the United States. Today Carter’s eating crow, as his own Carter Center reported that Chavez is cheating:

Don’t sweat it Mr. President; your reputation won’t get much worse just because you looked silly one more time.

Chavez says that if he winds up going down to defeat, he will respect the results of the election:

Hopefully he’ll get the chance to make good on that promise.

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noreiga recently noted that Chavez has not looked good as he has campaigned while fighting cancer:

Is it too much to hope that if Chavez does end up in involuntary retirement, his preferred candidate for President of the U.S. gets beaten as well?

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Update:

According to Venezuela’s Electoral Council, Chavez has won (via AP/Drudge):

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s electoral council says President Hugo Chavez has won re-election, defeating challenger Henrique Capriles.

National Electoral Council president Tibisay Lucena says that with most votes counted, Chavez had about 54 percent of the vote.

Chavez spokesman Eva Colinger declares victory, says Henrique Capriles has conceded:

Chavez tweets: “Thank you my God, thank you everyone!”

Not everyone is convinced that this was a fair election:

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https://twitter.com/bapfaff/status/255143435273654272

Update:

Tanks in the streets:

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