In spite of all the obscene governmental advantage, all the threats and blackmails, the Venezuelan people found the strength to say NO.

¡Gloria al Bravo Pueblo!

Good on you, Venezuelan people!

Where was Jimmy Carter today? Wasn’t he going to monitor the elections in Venezuela? If not, why not? He’d have been the man for the job. After all, he’s a self-appointed ambassador to the world and useful idiot for the en…

12:01 AM, Monday 3 December

Source informs me that the NO won by 5.4%

http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/

I’ve read similar rumors now in a number of places.

I swear, at one point in my life I thought the world’s people were growing wiser. Now I think we’re destined to fight these same battles over and over again for centuries, if not forever..

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM DEFEATED
Quico says: Multiple sources inside CNE now confirm it. Chávez’s constitutional reform proposal has been defeated at the polls. An official announcement is imminent.

http://caracaschronicles.blogspot.com

10:56 PM Rosales on TV saying that last year he accepted defeat and he expects losers to admit defeat tonight.

11:08 PM The President of VTV Anselmi was just on the Government’s TV channel and the guy was absolutely drunk!

http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/

the tendency is irreversible the Triumph of NOT with 56% against 44% of If already it is confirmed. the Zulia state this Confirmed partially, with a arrasador triumph in all West. I do not win in Falcon, Mérida, Tachira, Guarico, Portuguese. Dear friends the information of these states I do not place it because to not confirmed the definitive one. it is a fact that do not have to fill of much joy, very in spite of the flojera and comfort of many Venezuelans which they remained in its house, in spite of the fear that seeded east government. we won. Single we have left that this government demonstrates his capacity and has the decency to recognize his defeat this is the principle of one long long walk is much way to walk but we are in that. Perhaps with calm we must wait for it official numbers move a little but single parano to be left so badly but they knows that they lost I gain Venezuela

but, given the nature of his personallity, he will likely ignore the results

82% of the votes already counted.

Still nothing official. But my SMS box is full of junk. Meanwhile the NO headquarters are loudly implying their victory. It does seem that the NO won but the CNE and the government are figuring out how to present it. One thing is certain: if the SI had won convincingly, AND honestly, we would already know. One thing we can thus advance in all certitude: if the SI won, it is by the narrowest of margins.

The delay of the CNE is simply scandalous at this point!
http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/

The original projection was a tally by 2am their time.

http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/2007/12/02.html#a3744

http://alexismarrero03.blogspot.com/

1) Serious source tells me Chavez canceled his press conference.

2)Jorge Rodriguez on TV, with bags under eyes dropping to his knees, calling to all to keep the piece and recognizing that the election is close!!!!

http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/

8:03 PM Two sources saying abstention is around 44-45% (one is Italy’s La Repubblica). If this is true, then things have to be close.

8:09 PM From a good source, the Government withdrew its advertising from tomorrow’s paper celebrating the victory

8:32 PM Mood shifting towards No win

http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/2007/12/02.html#a3744

Yet there are reports that Chavez has won the referendum.

It’s definitely the end of the world when we start getting our news from Al Jazeera.

The more I think about this,and I don’t remember seeing
it anywhere,but wouldn’t dinnerjacket,who keeps saying
Israel has to go,would be like Hitler,but really,the
way Hugo Chavez is acting,being buddy’s with dinnerjacket,
the way hugo has shut down his own media,and even more
importantly,the way he is treating his own people,if he’s
realected,doesn’t this make him like”Benito Mussolini”,
from Italy,world war two!

If this report is accurate, Venezuela is headed down the tubes….

Hugo Chavez’ initiatives could lose by 98% and he’d still declare himself the winner whether by sham or force, take your pick. Given his mania and intense narcissism, it’s impossible for him NOT to win at this point. What Hugo wants, Hugo gets.