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Venezuela: Divisions Harden after Chávez Victory
September 8, 2004 ... lines stretching a mile long and people waiting up to 11 hours to cast their ballots. But the referendum has not ... quickly by cell phone during the afternoon. Then, four hours before polls finally closed around midnight, New ... hard-working leader (he sleeps as little as three or four hours a night and works seven days a week). Matos adds that ... -
16th Worldwide Youth Festival Begins in Venezuela
August 10, 2005 ... Palestine, Vietnam and Surinam. It took almost four hours Monday evening for the parade of delegations to enter ... -
An Entertaining Evening With Hugo Chavez in New York
September 21, 2006 ... and the cultural sacredness of this plant After two hours listening to Chavez, I felt inspired but tired. As I ... -
How to Interpret the Legislative Elections in Venezuela
October 12, 2010 ... final numbers of the popular vote, but within just a few hours of the polls closing, all major political parties ... two-thirds of the seats. It became apparent in the wee hours of Monday morning that PSUV had come up short. Chavez ... -
Concession Speech of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
December 8, 2007 ... the thousands of Venezuelans who were working for up to 24 hours at the polls, the national electoral council- I want to ... from my heart I tell you, and believe me I spent many hours debating this dilemma with myself, at the very depths ... heart, here in my Venezuelan soul I spent four and a half hours with a great dilemma, from 9:00 at night until 1:00, ... -
Venezuela’s Quiet Election
December 7, 2005 ... he was dedicated to casting his vote: Rodriguez waited 6 hours because of a problem at his table in the center. But ... at nine in the morning, this was a moot point. Three hours after the official opening of the polls, she was still ... -
War vs Peace: Colombia, Venezuela and the FARC Hostage Saga
February 8, 2008 ... conflict, in the first place to negotiate an exchange of 47 FARC-held prisoners for 500 FARC fighters in currently in ... -
Venezuelan Regional Elections: PSUV Candidates Win 20 out of 23 States
December 18, 2012 ... where, as we said, Capriles Radonski beat Elias Jaua (52-47). Even here, the PSUV will have a majority in the state ... -
The Economist Gets Economical with the Truth on Venezuela's Municipal Elections
December 15, 2013 ... held the White House with 51.1%, while Mitt Romney had 47.2%. Do those few percentage points of difference mean that ... -
Venezuela is not Ukraine
March 5, 2014 ... right wing (think of Mitt Romney and his contempt for the 47%) for a country that has repeatedly voted for candidates ... -
Diary of a Venezuelan Presidential Election: December 3rd 2006
December 5, 2006 ... I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to show up 4 hours before polling stations even opened, I hadn’t taken ... polling stations. Starting around 3pm I spent about two hours winding my way through the hills, turning around at ... -
Do the Venezuelan Opposition’s Cries of Fraud Stand Up to Scrutiny?
October 20, 2017 ... Petare Parish, the average level of voter abstention was 47.15%. In this same parish, the CNE relocated 8 voting ... centres were moved. Their average abstention levels were 47.4%, just 1.41% higher than the 45.99% in the rest of San ... -
Keys to Understanding What’s Going On
April 22, 2013 ... going on for the leadership, which will be decided in the hours to come. The currents are slyly measuring themselves in ... -
Canadian Organizations Condemn Post-Election Violence in Venezuela
April 28, 2013 ... by 50.8% to 49% - a difference of some 265,000 votes. Hours prior the results were announced, Henrique Capriles, ... -
Reform of the Social Responsibility in Media Law: 4 Questions & 4 Answers
January 5, 2011 ... television programming during prime time hours. 2. Why weren’t the same objectives achieved with the ...