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	Chavez Wins Referendum - Oct. 2004
		Internationally the defeat of the recall referendum was a blow to neo-liberal economic models and imperialism.
		Recall drives against other politicians, especially those with shorter four-year terms of office, were pending, and Chavez contended that those petitions should be acted upon first.
		The defeat of the recall referendum was not only a victory for one man or even for a country, but it was a victory for all who desire a more peaceful and just social order.
	www.rtis.com /touchstone/oct2004/15.html (2960 words)

	Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Venezuelan recall referendum of 15 August 2004 was a referendum to determine whether Hugo Chávez, the current President of Venezuela, should be recalled from office.
		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.
		The president of the Venezuelan Workers Confederation was quoted by the Associated Press as claiming that the Chávez government had begun firing petition signers from government ministries, the state oil company, the state water company, the Caracas Metro, and public hospitals and municipal governments controlled by Chávez's party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venezuelan_recall_referendum_of_2004 (3605 words)

	Venezuelan Recall Referendum: Interview with an International Observer : Indymedia Colombia
		Erika Zurawski traveled to Venezuela Aug. 10-22 to serve as an official elections observer under the auspices of the National Elections Council of Venezuela, which is overseen by the Venezuelan Supreme Court.
		Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, faced a recall referendum which aimed to remove him from office.
		They are only looking out for their own interests, which for the first time in Venezuelan history are being put behind the interests of the vast majority of the country's population.
	colombia.indymedia.org /news/2004/08/16280.php (1095 words)

	Venezuela Referendum
		Internationally, the defeat of the recall referendum was a blow to neoliberal economic models and imperialism.
		One of the innovations of the constitution was a provision which allowed for the recall of elected officials midway through their terms.
		Their polls showed them in the lead, the media is almost universally viral in its treatment of the government, and condemnation of the government is hegemonic in the wealthy neighborhoods where the opposition is based gave them a sense of invincibility.
	www.yachana.org /reports/venezuela/ref_essay.html (3043 words)

	Venezuela's recall: An e-conversation with Jennifer McCoy, part II \| www.vcrisis.com
		It is precisely because that first audit on the night of August 15 was not completed that we began to propose the second audit late on Monday as soon as we had information that the first audit was not completed and the beginnings of concerns from the Coordinadora about the machines.
		Prior to the recall, almost all of the concerns were focused on the transmission and tabulation, not the performance of the machines, and the former is what our quick count and other tests we ran focused on.
		Venezuelans on the other hand are faced with the daunting prospect of having the recall referendum and the regional elections separated by 75 days as opposed to four years in the US.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200410041724 (2953 words)

	Venezuela - Chavez Obstruction of the Presidential Recall Referendum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The new constitution written by Chavez supporters was submitted to a referendum in December 1999 and voter turnout was 45 percent.
		Chronology of the Recall Referendum and Chavez Counter-actions
		Council says the recall referendum may be held before the end of 2003.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/4/6/102346.shtml (2741 words)

	Venezuelan Recall Referendum on Opposition Deputies Suspended (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The recall was scheduled for this April 3rd, but has been postponed after the constitutional chamber voted in favor of a motion put forth by Salomón Centeno, deputy to the AN for the state of Cojedes and a member of the opposition.
		The ability to recall elected officials, from local councilors to the President of the Republic, was a controversial addition to the 1999 Constitution of the Bolívarian Republic of Venezuela.
		That referendum was held on August 15th, 2004, resulting in a powerful victory for Chávez, who had his mandate as President reconfirmed until 2006 with almost 60% of the vote.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=1510 (724 words)

	2004: July - October Political Notes - Richard Stallman
		It occurs to me that one other factor that may have contributed to Edwards' bias in the debate was that he too has been misled by the prevailing media bias, which gives a lot of publicity to the occasional Israeli children that are murdered, and much less to the many Palestinian children that are murdered.
		Here he analyzes this, and how the photo-analyst's mistaking a stretcher for a rocket is just one example of a practice that frequently leads to shooting a rocket at civilians.
		There is a new attempt to challenge the constitutionally of changes in the US copyright law, that have made many out-of-print works into orphans, unable to move forward to the computer age.
	www.stallman.org /archives/2004-jul-oct.html (10960 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Q&A: Venezuela's recall referendum
		A referendum on Hugo Chavez's presidency was held in Venezuela on 15 August.
		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 /2/hi/americas/3247816.stm (854 words)

	Venezuelan referendum - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - August 12, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This Sunday's presidential recall referendum in Venezuela may not be the watershed event Venezuelans, oil executives and observers had hoped for.
		The Venezuelan electoral council has imposed unreasonable limitations on international observers, such as barring them from voicing an opinion during the electoral process and limiting each monitoring organization to 40 observers nationwide.
		An organ of the OAS criticized a July decision by a chamber of the Supreme Court to uphold a law requiring journalists to obtain licenses, noting that the decision would have implications for freedom of the press.
	washingtontimes.com /op-ed/20040811-095728-7722r.htm (495 words)

	Chavez Defeats Recall Attempt (washingtonpost.com)
		CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 16 -- President Hugo Chavez was declared the winner of a national recall referendum by a substantial margin on Monday, and said he had won a fresh mandate for the highly centralized, populist style of government that has stirred fierce opposition at home and irritated the Bush administration.
		Timeline: Events in Venezuela that led to the recall referendum on President Hugo Chavez.
		The recall ballot was the culmination of a two-year campaign by opponents -- who include many in the country's middle and upper classes -- to drive out Chavez, a populist whose support is based among Venezuela's poor.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A4208-2004Aug16.html (771 words)

	Chavez Declares Recall Victory With 58% Majority
		CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a populist who survived a coup two years ago, appeared on Monday to have weathered the latest challenge to what he calls his revolution to help the poor as he declared victory in a historic recall referendum.
		Suppporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrate in front of Miraflores Palace in Caracas, August 16, 2004.
		The recall was the latest chapter in more than two years of often violent confrontation between Chavez and his critics.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0816-01.htm (749 words)

	Court-Packing Law Threatens Venezuelan Democracy (Human Rights Watch, 22-6-2004)
		Now, as he faces a recall referendum in August 2004, Chavez's own government threatens to undermine this country's fragile democracy through a political takeover of its highest court.
		Chavez's recent announcement that he would accept a national referendum to end his presidency received widespread international attention -- as did a poll showing he might actually be able to win it.
		It is this court that may ultimately determine the outcome of the referendum.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2004/07/07/venezu9015.htm (749 words)

	The Venezuelan recall referendum ... beware Jimmy Carter!
		The events leading up to the referendum speak eloquently of the crass US intervention, the violent tactics of the elites, the rule or ruin strategy of the opposition, the unbridled totalitarian propaganda of the privately owned mass media.
		Equally ominous, in the campaign to secure signatures for the referendum, fraudulent identity cards were massively produced and distributed, tens of thousands of deceased, incapacitated and coerced had their signatures forged and thousands of signatures were written by a single hand.
		Focusing on enforcing the Government's compliance with electoral procedures and ignoring the highly prejudicial context of the election, Carter is fulfilling his role of a "set-up man" for either an electoral victory of the opposition or in the event of a defeat, for a post-election pretext for violent coup.
	globalresearch.ca /articles/PET407A.html (3221 words)

	The recall referendum in Venezuela
		The recall of elected officials was an idea proposed by Chávez to the Assembly, and it was supported by the majority and rejected by the opposition, which then hypocritically used that right to attempt to oust the President.
		This recall referendum was the most closely monitored electoral process in the western hemisphere.
		The internal and external enemies of the Venezuelan revolution cannot be reconciled by elections, referendums and negotiations.
	www.marxist.com /Latinam/recall_referendum_venezuela.html (3167 words)

	US Dept of State - OAS, Carter Center to Observe Venezuelan Recall Process
		In November 2003, opposition leaders said that about 3.4 million Venezuelans signed petitions calling for a presidential recall referendum in a process described as free and fair by the Carter Center and the OAS.
		Chavez also has called Venezuelans who signed the recall petition "traitors," and government officials have threatened to fire civil servants who supported the recall, Noriega told the Inter-American Press Association's Summit of National Congresses of the Americas.
		The Group of Friends of the Facilitation Process in Venezuela, as it is formally known, was created in January 2003 to help the OAS secretary general find a negotiated solution to end the political impasse in Venezuela peacefully and democratically.
	usinfo.state.gov /dhr/Archive/2004/May/14-813058.html (696 words)

	CNN.com - Protests as Venezuelan referendum hopes fade - Mar. 1, 2004
		Protesters seeking a recall vote against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez barricaded streets in Caracas Monday as international efforts to save the referendum process looked close to collapse.
		The chances of a referendum being held suffered another blow Monday when Venezuela's top electoral official quarreled with the Atlanta-based Carter Center over whether that U.S. observer mission was withdrawing from the nation.
		The Organization of American States, which is also observing the referendum process, did not comment.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/americas/03/01/venezuela.reut (622 words)

	Polling and the Ballot: The Venezuelan Referendum, by David Rosnick, August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Voters were to decide whether or not to recall their twice-elected President Hugo Chávez.
		Several polls in the run-up to the referendum showed Chavez to be the likely winner; the most recent (August 4-8) and comprehensive was the poll by Evans/McDonough Company, Inc., with Varianzas Opinion.
		Despite an internationally certified Chávez victory, leaders of the Venezuelan opposition are refusing to accept the outcome, alleging massive fraud.
	www.cepr.net /publications/venezuela_2004_08.htm (783 words)

	Venezuelan leader survives recall
		Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, claimed victory on Monday with the support of almost 60 per cent of the votes cast in a weekend referendum on his leadership.
		Former U.S. President Jiimy Carter, however, who was leading a team of international observers monitoring the recall vote, endorsed Chavez's claim to have won.
		This was Venezuela's first-ever attempt to recall a president, and ended a two-year drive by opposition parties to oust Chavez.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2004/08/16/venezuela_results040816.html (1496 words)

	Milfuegos: CNN--Biased News on Venezuela?
		However, a friend sent me a link to the Lou Dobbs report on the Smartmatic voting machines that were used in the Venezuelan presidential recall referendum in 2004 and that were also used recently in Chicago and New Mexico.
		It is the process that was used for the presidential recall referendum in 2004.
		That was a bloody year in Venezuela, not so much because of Chávez’s short-lived coup attempt, but because of the number of people shot on the streets by the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez, Hausmann’s boss.
	milfuegos.blogspot.com /2006/06/cnn-biased-news-on-venezuela.html (843 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Venezuela: The Chávez Victory by the Numbers
		The opposition members can and should take pride in the service they provided to their country and to the world around it: they made possible a referendum that sweeps Venezuela - and, soon, all of América - into a new day for the dream made reality of democracy that is also participatory and authentic.
		Of course, after publishing a knowingly false, unsourced, uncited claim last night that Chávez had lost the referendum according to so-called "exit polls" that she did not have the journalistic fortitude to identify, she might not be the Independent's correspondent any more...
		When subsequently asked if most of Venezuelan expatriates were disproportionally rich, he denied the existence of rich and poor in Venezuela.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2004/8/16/81730/5923 (1355 words)

	Muslim American Society
		(News Agencies) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who survived a military coup and a two-month strike by oil workers, overcame a referendum to remove him from office two years before his term expires.
		But Chavez claims the opposition is merely seeking to regain the privileges it used to enjoy before he launched the self-styled revolution he claims is lifting millions of Venezuelans out of poverty.
		There have been market concerns that a victory by the opposition, which last year staged a two-month oil sector strike, could affect exports -- notably to the United States, where Venezuelan shipments account for 15 percent of oil imports.
	www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=1534 (657 words)

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