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</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Yes! The October 31,
2004 Venezuelan elections for Governors confirm reality! <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#A80000"><a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23311">http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23311</a><br><br>
</font><font face="Georgia" size=2><b>VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar
Heck writes: </b></font><font face="georgia" size=2>As per the results
thus far, 20 of 22 seats for governors were won by pro-Chavez candidates
whilst only 2 of 22 were won by <u>not-pro</u>-Chavez candidates. This is
an overwhelming show of support for the Chavez government ... and this,
throughout the entire country!<br><br>
<b>It further reinforces the fact that 1) true democracy does exists in
Venezuela, 2) the Chavez government is much more popular than the
anti-Chavez, anti-democratic movements have been trying to
claim.<br><br>
</b>These elections should also keep the US government at bay, at least
for a while. Both Bush and Kerry should heed these elections results ...
and seriously question the reasons why they are being fed distorted and
unreal information.<br><br>
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<dd>Who is telling them that Venezuela is anti-democratic?<br><br>
<dd>Who is telling them that Chavez is a dictator?<br><br>
<dd>Who is telling them that the Chavez government is persecuting
political rivals?<br><br>
<dd>Who is telling them all this garbage? <br><br>
<dd>The National Endowment for Democracy (NED)?<br><br>
<dd>The Venezuelan Republican party?<br><br>
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</dl><font face="georgia" size=3>The Venezuelan “civil associations”
which have been financed by the NED and by USAID?<br><br>
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<dd><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Who?<br><br>
<dd>Sumate?<br><br>
<dd>Why?<br><br>
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</dl><font face="georgia" size=3>What hand has the Venezuelan anti-Chavez
media had in providing the US president (and his adversary, Kerry)</i>
with manipulated information about the realities in Venezuela?<br><br>
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<dd>Why did Globovision, RCTV, Venevision, Televen, El Nacional, El
Universal and Tal Cual back the anti-democratic Coordinadora Democratica
(CD) in its efforts to destroy the country in 2002-2003?<br><br>
<dd>Why did these media sources provide the world with lies and
distortions, slandering Chavez with all their might? <br><br>
</font>
<dd><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Who paid them for this?
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</dl><font face="georgia" size=3>These are serious questions that the
next US president should consider. If Chavez was so unpopular, as the
Venezuelan anti-Chavez movement continuously claimed, why did Chavez win
59% of the votes in the August 2004 referendum?<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>If the Chavez government is so
unpopular, why have 20 of 22 Governor’s chairs been won by pro-Chavez
candidates?<br><br>
If the anti-Chavez movements are so popular, as the anti-Chavez movements
themselves claim, then why did they only win 2 of 22 Governor’s
chairs?<br><br>
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<dd><font face="georgia" size=3>Why did they lose 20 of 22
chairs?<br><br>
<dd>Why did they only receive an average of 35% of the vote on October
31, 2004?<br><br>
<dd>Does getting 35% of the vote (versus pro-Chavez votes at 59% average)
</i>make them “very popular?”<br><br>
<dd>What kind of mathematics do the Venezuelan anti-Chavez movements
use?<br><br>
<dd>What kind of mathematics have they been using for the last three
years?<br><br>
</dl>They have consistently claimed that “they” are the popular ones and
that Chavez is unpopular ... and that the referendum was a fraud because
“they” should have had 60% popularity and not Chavez! <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>One of the “best” results of the
October 31, 2004 elections for State Governors is the fact that Enrique
Mendoza lost his seat. He is one of the most violence-provoking
ex-leaders in Venezuela. He openly promoted violence and civil unrest in
2002-2003, along with Juan Fernandez (PDVSA), Carlos Fernandez
(Fedecamaras), Carlos Ortega (CTV), Albis Munoz (Fedecamaras) and more ..
many of whom are in hiding today.</b></font>
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<li><font face="georgia" size=3>Something is going well in Venezuela ...
it is “El Pueblo” (the people)</i> who democratically (by vote)
</i>ousted the criminal Enrique Mendoza. This is democracy in action!
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</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>Another interesting factor about these
elections is that the pro-Chavez parties gained an additional 7 seats.
This means that the anti-Chavez Governors were not as popular as they
claimed ... and no amount of “palanca” (bribery) is going to keep them in
power .. like in the old days of Venezuela’s pseudo-democracies (run by
the “old boy’s club”)</i>. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">How can Chavez be so
popular?<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Why is it that at least 20 of a total
of 25 Venezuelan states/federal districts are today headed by pro-Chavez
Governors?<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>The answers are many, but amongst
the most obvious is ... Chavez is the first President in Venezuelan
history to truly care about the 80% poorer majority who have suffered
generations-worth of abuses under the control of the minority (whiter)
20% mid-to-upper classes who, to this day, still live in their
apartheid-like world ... protected by high-walled, spiked barricades and
private, armed security personnel.
<ul>
<li>The Chavez government has also managed to slow down the traditionally
chronic “disappearance” of public funds and PDVSA profits which would
“miraculously” find themselves in the Miami bank accounts of the former
reigning elites, their friends and families and pets. </font>
</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>The Chavez government has brought education
and health services to the majority 80% who had consistently been
almost-completely neglected by past governments. The Chavez government
has put the military to work for the people, building houses and roads
and assisting the citizens ... rather than going around harassing people,
stealing from them or shooting them. <br><br>
The Chavez government is in the process of reviewing all natural-resource
exploitation contracts with outside firms in order to assure that
Venezuela gets its fair share of the profits ... not like in the past
where some contracts negotiated by former administrations called for
royalties as low as 1% ... which is not only irresponsible, but totally
ridiculous from any standpoint - and they call themselves so educated
and intelligent ... huh!<br><br>
Since Chavez has been in power, the Adecos and Copeyanos have almost
disappeared ... as aging relics of a corrupt past. Since Chavez has been
in power, the misnamed Coordinadora Democratica has almost disappeared as
well ... and so has Fedecamaras (Venezuela’s corrupt traditional Chamber
of Commerce)</i> and the CTV (Venezuela’s corrupt traditional trade union
central)</i>.
<ul>
<li>All of these organizations made a very bad name for themselves (and
deservedly so)</i> ... because they were the public leaders of the
sabotage of the Venezuelan economy in 2002-2003. </font>
</ul><br>
<font face="georgia" size=3>The October 31, 2004, elections reinforce
reality in Venezuela. About 60% of the population generally support the
Chavez government ... and only a maximum of about 35% support the
anti-Chavez movement or political parties that want to rule Venezuela
like it was ruled in the past ... by unilateral presidential decrees,
cronyism, favoritism, Presidentially-appointed Governors and Mayors ...
and abusive police and military force. <br><br>
Fewer and fewer people are believing what comes out of the mouths of the
Venezuelan anti-Chavez movements ... except, unfortunately, for people
such as Bush and Kerry and their oh-so-smart-and-educated “expert”
advisors who appear to know very little (and probably care even less)</i>
about what is really going on in this world. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Viva Venezuela’s
democracy! <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>Addendum#1:</u></b> I just read that
Orlando Urdaneta, a Venezuelan anti-Chavez actor, declared, on Miami TV
today, Monday, that Chavez should be assassinated ... and that he would
be willing to give the order. Nice guy, right? Democratic? Civil?
Peaceful? Yeah, sure ... my foot! <br><br>
Addendum #2:</u></b> I have also just read that Enrique Mendoza is
refusing to accept the results of the October 31, 2004 elections in which
he lost his seat as Governor against a pro-Chavez candidate. What is he
going to do now? Chain himself to his desk? Go on a hunger strike? Call
for the death of Chavez ... like both Orlando Urdaneta and Carols Ortega
did in Miami? <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5>Oscar Heck<br>
<a href="mailto:oscar@vheadline.com">oscar@vheadline.com</a><br><br>
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