INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER: Widening margin of victory for Chavez Frias

[mom cat]

INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER: Widening margin of victory for Chavez Frias


President Hugo Chavez Frias

In the Latin America section of this weekend's edition of THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER, editor Bob Chapman writes: We are widening our margin of victory for Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias in this weekend's referendum from 57% to 60% to 57% to 63%. The referendum financed, planned and executed by the Bush neocons designed to lead to his overthrow will have just the opposite affect.

The result will further entrench Mr. Chavez as the leader of the emerging opposition in Latin American to the neo-liberal hegemony of the Bush administration.

Chavez’ popularity in Latin America has grown as support for the US puppets Vincente Fox in Mexico and Alejandro Toledo in Peru has dwindled to almost nothing. Even President Lula in Brazil is struggling after proving he is pliable to the internationalists.

As you read this, the referendum will be in the process of being heldand Mr. Chavez’ resounding victory will be met with stone silence by the one-world elitists in Washington. They will again have been defeated by a man who cares for his people
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=22434

[brainshrub]

1. Whoo Hooo!

A victory for the working classes in So. America! Hooray!

[Joanne98]

2. God Bless Hugo Chavez

i love this man........:)

[genius]

6. I'll second that

[Larkspur]

3. I pray that Hugo's victory today will have major ripple effects in the USA

This is what participatory democracy is really all about ... not the version emanating from Washington and London. Our Bilderberger lords view populists with intense hatred because they are the exact antithesis of all their goals, the subjugation of mankind.

We have to laugh at Americans who have not discovered what the poor of the barrios of Venezuela already know, and that is how to clean their political house.

Even conservative and right wing writers in America do not get it ... it is about freedom and not political labels...

We need to clean house in the USA and that starts with booting out Bush and pressuring Kerry to listen to the people, not the elites.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Oh yeah.....

>>Our Bilderberger lords view populists with intense hatred because they are the exact antithesis of all their goals, the subjugation of mankind.<<


What would a Repug say if we posted this sort of thing on their little boards.... would they even care... would they even understand the implications? Maybe it would please them... hope not.

"24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract."
Will Hutton

[aquart]

4. BushCo will fight on. And be beaten again and again.

Ultimately, fascism always creates its own destruction.

Sometimes really fast.

Go Chavez! Courage, determination, and true love for you people wins.

[hadrons]

7. articles a bit bias ...

Chavez’ popularity in Latin America has grown as support for the US puppets Vincente Fox in Mexico and Alejandro Toledo in Peru has dwindled to almost nothing.

BTW, I agree with the sentiment, but still ... Chavez is an a-hole, but he's an elected a-hole (unlike a well-known chimp) and he's better than the turds who oppose him

[Just Me]

8. We all have assholes, I guess, from which to choose *grin*.

[cal04]

9. not what the Independent is saying

The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, looked to be losing his grip on power last night as exit polls showed him to be trailing the opposition by almost a million votes.The figures were early indications that, for the first time in the country's history, the President may have his term in office cut short by a referendum.

The mid-morning results showed that the opposition, already boasting an enormous 1,758,000 votes to Chavez's 798,000, is well on its way to reaching the target of 3.76 million votes it needs to oust the authoritarian, left-wing President. Turn-out for the referendum was high, with millions of Venezuelans queuing from the early hours at polling stations all over the oil-rich country to decide the political fate of the firebrand Mr Chavez.

The Venezuelan people are tensely awaiting a close-run and disputed result. In the capital, Caracas, government vans equipped with speakers drove through the poor residential districts in the east of the city at 5am, playing a military wake-up call before piping out popular pro-Chavez songs to voters, some of whom had in any case been up all night letting off fireworks, anticipating victory.

"Our commandante has already won," said Eric Caldera, a student queuing to vote against Mr Chavez's recall. "The rich people and TV stations are the only ones who say the opposition is going to win. They want to regain the power and privilege they had before, and loot the country. You can count the rich people on your hand, the poor you can't. They are too many. And they are with Chavez."


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=551867

[seventhson]

10. The writer looks like a right wing disinformationist in this article

http://www.hacer.org/current/Chile15.php

I hope she is just a corporate propagandist and has this all wrong.

The story does NOT seem to synch up with other reports.

It also seems to copntradicat itself.

We shall see.

If Chavez loses there will be hell to pay in Latin America for generations.

[AP]

11. According to yahoo story, exit polls were forbidden.

which is in the other thread in LBN.

[cal04]

12. I read that too, that's why I was a little shocked

to see this article. I found this too

Why We Don't Publish Venezuela "Exit Polls"
By Al Giordano,
Posted on Sun Aug 15th
The Narco News Informational "War Room" is hopping here in Caracas, Venezuela, with more than a dozen Authentic Journalists monitoring every single wire cable, news report, or claim made on the Internet regarding today's referendum in this South American country.
We are aware of all the exit poll information on both sides - and we have seen the conflicting claims of at least two other websites regarding so-called "exit polls" - but we will not publish them here and I would like to explain why...

First, it is illegal under Venezuelan law.Second, it is illegal for good reason, in a country where the Commercial Media unanimously reported, in April 2002, "Chavez Resigned" when the president was, in fact, kidnapped at gunpoint. Here, the Commercial Media has shown its willingness to blatantly lie in order to destabilize and impede democracy, and more of that kind of behavior continues today...


The publication of false numbers (we know that the numbers published, for example, by "Eric" on an esqualido website are false, and knowing the source, we believe they are knowingly false, as does Venezuela Communications minister Jesse Chacón, who is also aware, now, of the probable identity of "Eric") only reflects an attempt to disqualify the hard results when they come in later tonight.
There are all kinds of shenanigans going on today in Venezuela. Here is another example, in a report filed from here in the Narco Newsroom Caracas by Manuel Rozental, who is here with Justin Podur and the Z-Net delegation collaborating in this Election Night Press Watch...

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/8/15/175735/064

[mom cat]

17. "Dewey Wins"

[Cha]

13. Whoa! This is sooooo different than another

thread I read where Chavez was behind and was going to Lose from
the exit polls taken. I was really bummed out and now I'm all happy again!

[Ediacara]

14. The Independent was aparently duped by fake exit polls

Exit polls are NOT being taken, and the news report that the Independent based theior story on was a fake wire report reportedly from Caracas, but aparently originating somewhere in Virginia!

[mom cat]

18. Now if they had only read greg Pallasts' article..also in the

Independant, maybe they would not have taken the bait.

[On the Road]

15. Hey Man, I Like This Pic

I tried buying one of those baseball hats, but all they sold was Tommy Hilfiger shit.

[lottie244]

16. Chavez will be more letigitmate than Bush as Head of State.

Perhaps there is a place for leaders who struggle to help their own people even in the face of America-backed coups, embargos, sanctions, invasions. Vive la Chavez, Vive ls Castro!!!