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	Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The recall referendum was announced on 8 June 2004 by the National Electoral Council after Chávez opponents had succeeded in collecting the number of signatures required by the 1999 Constitution to force a vote.
		The recall mechanism was introduced into Venezuelan law in 1999 under the new Constitution drafted by the National Constituent Assembly and sanctioned by the electorate in a referendum.
		In February 2004, Roberto Abdul, one of the directors of Súmate, the NGO that collected the signatures, stated that according to their own calculations at least 8% (265,000) of the signatures were invalid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Venezuela_recall (2714 words)

	Venezuela - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Venezuela was the site of one of the first permanent Spanish settlements in South America in 1522, being the first one Santa Marta in what is now Colombia, and most of the territory eventually became part of the viceroyalty of New Granada.
		A recall referendum was held on August 15, 2004, which Chávez won with approximately 58% of the vote.
		Venezuela is home to a wide variety of landscapes, such as the northeasternmost extensions of the Andes mountains in the northwest and along the northern Caribbean coast, of which the highest point is the Pico Bolivar at 5,007 m.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /venezuela.htm (1219 words)

	Recall election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Along with the initiative and referendum, it was one of the major electoral reforms advocated by leaders of the Progressive movement in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Until Gray Davis 's recall in October 2003, no California statewide official had ever been recalled, though there were 117 previous attempts.
		If enough voters sign the petition, the Speaker of the legislature announces before the House that the member has been recalled and a by-election follows as soon as possible, it gives the opportunity to replace the politician in question.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Representative_recall (468 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Venezuela
		In Venezuela they exercised their ministry with fruitful results; and when the conquest was completed, they still continued their mission with the greatest zeal.
		Thus the Church in Venezuela, despoiled of almost all that it once possessed, has been unable to recover itself in this respect, and is placed in pecuniary straits which preclude it from energetic social action and from rising out of the prostrate condition in which it was left by the persecutor.
		The administration of this Church, as of most of the Venezuelan Churches, was formerly regulated by the synodal constitutions enacted at Caracas in 1687; at present all the dioceses are governed under the Pastoral Instruction promulgated by the Venezuelan episcopate in the Conference of 23 May to 27 July, 1904.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15327a.htm (6135 words)

	Recall in Venezuela (washingtonpost.com)
		That the movement finally succeeded is due in large part to the tireless efforts of former president Jimmy Carter and the secretary general of the Organization of American States, Cesar Gaviria, who insisted that the referendum process be respected and who intervened repeatedly to prevent Mr.
		There are widespread reports that citizens who signed the recall petitions have been fired from government jobs or denied passports, and one of the organizers of the campaign is under investigation for the "crime" of receiving funding from the National Endowment for Democracy.
		Chavez would lose a fair recall vote, though the opposition's lack of cohesion -- it groups labor unions, business associations and political parties united only by the president's assault on Venezuelan democracy -- means a follow-up presidential election would be up for grabs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A35763-2004Jun11.html (580 words)

	Venezuela’s Recall Show-Down
		That is, after having canceled Christmas in support of the December “general strike” and oil industry shut-down, opposition supporters finally used their Christmas fireworks (a tradition in Venezuela) for the celebration of the half-way point of Chávez’ term in office because this marked the point at which a recall referendum could be petitioned.
		Large investments in Venezuela’s educational system, which include the construction and rehabilitation of over 3,000 schools, the elimination of all matriculation fees, and the free provision of breakfast and lunch at school, have led to the matriculation of over one million pupils who were previously excluded from the school system.
		As a result, it is not clear at all whether the presidential recall referendum will take place this year (if the signatures are declared valid, it would legally have to take place within three months of the submission of the petition, thus by November 20th).
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1012 (2483 words)

	ZNet \| Latin America \| Venezuela's Recall
		Venezuela appeared to take a couple of steps closer to a recall referendum on the presidency of Hugo ChÃ¡vez in recent weeks, but there is little chance that he will be removed by electoral means.
		But Venezuela's opposition has tried several times to remove him by extralegal efforts, including a short-lived military coup in April 2002-initially supported by the Bush Administration-and a sixty-four-day oil strike and business lockout this past December to February.
		They have also cut off US Export-Import Bank credits to Venezuela and renewed complaints that Venezuela is not helping their "counterterrorism" and "antidrug" efforts in Colombia.
	www.zmag.org /content/LatinAmerica/WeisbrotVenez.cfm (770 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Venezuela’s Recall Show-Down
		Finally, in the international sphere, Venezuela has led the way to reconsolidate OPEC, to challenge the policies of the IMF and of neo-liberal economics, to question U.S. foreign policy, and to unify Latin America economically and politically.
		The media, both national and international, love to present the latest polling data on Venezuela, which claims that Chavez would suffer a massive loss in a recall referendum, with as much as two-thirds of the electorate voting against him.
		Also, traditional Christmas bonuses, which in Venezuela can be as much as three month’s salary, will tend to put people in a better mood towards the government, at least among those active in the formal economy.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2003-09/16wilpert.cfm (1960 words)

	Recall Worries Venezuela's Opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's opposition worries that a recall referendum on President Hugo Chavez will, in the least, be made more difficult by new voter lists, an electronic voting system and untested thumbprint ID devices.
		Venezuela's elections council says it is trying to ensure the vote's legitimacy with touchscreen voting, to avoid ballot-stuffing of the past, and a thumbprint ID registration system to keep people from voting more than once.
		Venezuela could have simplified things with a manual vote, said Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University.
	www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/press/pres20040728a.html (616 words)

	Venezuela's recall vote still in doubt - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Venezuela’' government opened an investigation that could lead to the removal of three Supreme Court of Justice's ministers who validated 876,000 signatures seeking to recall president Hugo Chavez.
		The opposition says the recall vote is the last chance Venezuela has to peacefully solve the political crisis that strains the country since 2002.
		On the contrary, Chavez believes the recall issue is an antidemocratic attempt launched by the opposition backed by Washington to remove him from power and drive back all the social reforms his administration did to improve living standards of the impoverished population.
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=12294 (550 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Venezuela postpones recall decision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CARACAS, Venezuela -- Amid violent clashes between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chavez, election officials postponed a decision on whether to verify millions of signatures on petitions seeking a vote on a recall of the country's leader.
		The delay came amid reports that officials were prepared to declare there weren't enough valid signatures to force a vote on whether to recall Chavez, a populist former paratrooper who critics say has mismanaged the country and become increasingly autocratic.
		The electoral council's decision to postpone an announcement on the recall came as hundreds of government foes clashed with National Guard troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/03/02/venezuela_postpones_recall_decision (432 words)

	“Repair” of Venezuela Recall Referendum Petition Signatures Proceeds Normally
		Caracas, May 23, 2004 (Venezuelanalysis.com) — Election Council member Jorge Rodriguez announced yesterday that the process for re-certifying signatures of recall referendum petitions was proceeding normally and without any problems.
		The repair process has become an important step in the overall recall process because the CNE said that neither the petitions for a presidential recall referendum nor for recall referenda against over 65 legislators from both the opposition and the governing coalition had enough valid signatures.
		Of the 3.1 million signatures that the CNE counted for the presidential recall petition, only 1.9 million were declared valid and about 1.2 million were invalidated but the signers will be given the opportunity to confirm and validate their signatures.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=1277 (887 words)

	Venezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote
		After numerous attempts to remove Chavez from power through unconstitutional means, including a coup d'etat, illegal strikes, and a management-led shutdown of the state oil company, the opposition put all their hopes in the recall referendum to oust the charismatic leader before the end of his term.
		Recall referenda is a new constitutional right Venezuelans won thanks to the new Constitution drafted by an elected Constituency Assembly during Hugo Chavez’s first year in office, and approved by popular referendum.
		The recall of elected officials was an idea proposed by Chavez to the Assembly, and it was supported by the majority and rejected by the opposition, which now used that right to attempt to oust the President.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=1341 (1020 words)

	Venezuela's recall could be a watershed Latin American event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In both countries, the work forces of the privileged industry enjoy a standard of living comparable to that of their counterparts in the industrialized countries, while the rest of society is sharply divided between the very rich and a low-paid working class, with not much of a middle class in between.
		But respectable polling outfits eventually made their way into Venezuela, and even if their results weren’t commissioned for or published by the opposition news outlets, they were at odds with the “polls” that got the most publicity.
		To remove a public official there must be more votes cast for recall than were cast to elect that person in the first place, and Chávez holds his current job because he won nearly 60 percent of the vote in a high-turnout election.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_10/issue_11/news_02.html (1293 words)

	USATODAY.com - Doubts over touchscreen tech choice for Venezuela recall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CARACAS, Venezuela — Despite an electronic voting fiasco in 2000 and the furor over e-voting in the United States, Venezuela is using untested touchscreen computers for its recall referendum on Hugo Chavez's presidency.
		Chavez says the recall is an effort by a corrupt Venezuelan elite, backed by Washington, to end his leftist revolution on behalf of the poor.
		Venezuela's opposition accuses Chavez of gradually imposing an authoritarian regime.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/world/2004-07-12-venezuela-evote_x.htm (1110 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Q&A: Venezuela's recall referendum
		It marked the latest stage in an increasingly bitter opposition campaign to unseat the president, who has already survived a coup, a two-month general strike and a previous attempt to force a vote on his leadership.
		But it also laid down that any elected official, including the president, can be subjected to a recall referendum after reaching the midway point of his or her term in office.
		Even if Mr Chavez had lost the recall referendum, it was by no means clear that he would have been barred from standing again in the subsequent presidential election.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3247816.stm (844 words)

	Workers World Jan. 8, 2004: Venezuela snapshots
		According to the once-chic Venezuela Exceptionalism Theory of the international academic and business communities, in 1958 Venezuela established itself as a stable democracy, developing into a nation more closely resembling its two most northern American neighbors than any of those south of Texas.
		One well-respected author, who was a fan of Betancourt, described the economic gap of this decade as being "as wide as an alligator's yawn." A mere 1.7 percent of the population owned 74 percent of the arable land.
		Like many other Latin American countries, Venezuela had suffered hard economic times in the 1980s and was being brought in line with the neoliberal desires of the World Bank, which included austerity measures.
	www.workers.org /ww/2004/venezuela0108.php (1284 words)

	Venezuela News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Venezuela beefs up military role in mining state 6/14/2005 Reuters: "Venezuela is reinforcing its military presence in a vast southeast mining state where widespread illegal extraction of gold and diamonds is threatening to destroy virgin forest and poison rivers, officials said Tuesday.
		Venezuela restocks its arsenal 3/14/2005 Financial Times: "Some US officials are more concerned by what they see as the lack of financial transparency in the negotiation of the arms deals than by the bellicose capability of the arms themselves.
		Venezuela Objects to American Sanctions 9/11/2004 AP: "According to a July report by the U.S. State Department, Venezuelan women and children are trafficked inside the country and abroad to Spain and to mines in neighboring Guyana.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /news/venezuelanews.htm (5373 words)

	Key Venezuela Recall Petition Rejected
		Venezuela's Constitution allows citizens to petition for a recall halfway through a president's six-year term.
		Venezuela's election board tossed out petitions demanding the recall of President Hugo Chavez, but opposition leaders vowed to collect the three million signatures all over again.
		Venezuela Gov't Steps Up Anti-Referendum Offensive (criminal investigations ordered) CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government on Wednesday stepped up its offensive against an opposition bid to hold a referendum on his rule, calling for a criminal investigation into a group that collected pro-vote signatures.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/981623/posts (1030 words)

	Turnout large for Venezuela recall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The long lines across the country were a sign that voters are determined to end a 3-year-old crisis that has polarized Venezuela's population, crippled its economy and unleashed several outbreaks of deadly violence.
		First elected by a landslide in 1998, Chavez has launched what some think is a leftist-populist revolution on behalf of Venezuela's poor majority that has angered the country's middle and upper classes and business and labor sectors and hamstrung the economy.
		To recall Chavez, his opponents must get a majority of the votes cast and at least one more vote than the total the president received in the 2000 election.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/venezuela16e_20040816.htm (359 words)

	Feature: The Carter Center and the 2004 Venezuela Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Venezuela is on the northern coast of South America and is one of the primary sources of oil to the United States.
		In the United States, we have the possibility of recall in some cases at the state level--you remember the gubernatorial recall referendum in California.
		However, others in Venezuela are concerned that checks and balances are being weakened, and that President Chavez' "Bolivarian Revolution" and his close friendship with Fidel Castro is leading the country down the path toward another Cuba.
	www.cartercenter.org /doc1690.htm (1239 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Venezuela
		Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Ecuador).
		For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who promoted the oil industry and allowed for some social reforms.
		Venezuela continues to be highly dependent on the petroleum sector, which accounts for roughly one-third of GDP, around 80% of export earnings, and more than half of government operating revenues.
	www.brainyatlas.com /geos/ve.html (1252 words)

	The Killing Train: The Venezuela Recall Trap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Looks like yet another country will be going to the polls before the United States, with Venezuela set on the course of a recall referendum for Chavez.
		"We would win the recall referendum by a wide margin, and that would be an excellent opportunity to re-legitimize the [revolutionary] process," said a pro-Chavez activist who wishes to remain anonymous after losing a debate during a meeting with other grassroots leaders who rejected the recall.
		Those who reject the recall, arguing that there was fraud, say that it will be hard to combat fraud during the recall vote.
	blog.zmag.org /killingtrain/archives/000520.html (419 words)

	Venezuela
		Venezuela, a third larger than Texas, occupies most of the northern coast of South America on the Caribbean Sea.
		Venezuela benefited from the oil boom of the early 1970s.
		Venezuela - Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, republic (1995 est.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108140.html (1142 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Venezuela recall woes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After a lengthy give-and- take with the Electoral Commission, there now appears to be little doubt that the opposition has collected the required number of signatures, with a few hundred thousand to spare, for a recall election, which might result in the impeachment of Chavez.
		Chavez accepted the result with something approaching good grace, but also declared his intention to launch a campaign to defeat the attempt to impeach him, a provision of the constitution he himself drew up.
		Ironically, because the price of oil, Venezuela's main export, is at an all-time high, the US, Venezuela's main customer, may end up involuntarily financing the campaign of one of its biggest bêtes noires.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/695/in2.htm (833 words)

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