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Bad start for Maduro: Capriles showing debilitates him inside the Bolivarian nomenclature
Following five hours of a long recount process Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced early Monday morning that acting president Nicolas Maduro is the new head of state, having defeated Henrique Capriles by less than a two percentage point difference. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHands up who thought the result was in doubt!
Apr 15th, 2013 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0To be honest mate, that is a closer result than I thought it would be.
Apr 15th, 2013 - 08:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0The dictatorial machine at work!!
Apr 15th, 2013 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's see it is an AlBA nation so...let's burn tires and bang pots.
Apr 15th, 2013 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0That'll do it..
I think the Chavistas are shocked the pre-stuffed boxes were not counted correctly. That is why they are really mad they know exactly how many ballots they filled out prior to the elections.
sad but true
Didn't you guys hope for Maduro to win to speed up the Venezuelan bankrupcy?
Apr 15th, 2013 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0What are you lot crying for?
;)
“Capriles, 40, had argued that voters were tired of divisive Chavez-era politics”
Apr 15th, 2013 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where there is discord, let us bring harmony...where did I hear that before?! As if reversing the gains of Chavismo would not be a “divisive” project!!!
“However despite Maduro’s victory, the great undisputable victor is Capriles”
Except he lost =)
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Apr 15th, 2013 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes.
@6 Not a very political animal are you?
Apr 15th, 2013 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Overturning a 10% point deficit in 6 months when the emotional support is with the other guy is impressive. Yes he lost, but he has gained all the political momentum.
Remember, that Maduro would win was a forgone conclusion, it was just going to be a case of by how much. Fill up Wembley stadium 3 and a half times...that is the margin...it is nothing
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Apr 15th, 2013 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nobody expected Maduro to beat Capriles with a higher margin than Chavez did. Taking that into consideration, I'd say Maduro's win is according to what was expected. Less margin than Chavez, but still a win.
Do I hear pots banging already? Is that smoke from the tires?
Apr 15th, 2013 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let's line up for our milk and sugar ration and thank goodness Chavez Jr “won”.
ALBA ALBA ALBA
I am twisting laughing
@9 Maybe not, but people expected him to keep hold of the voters. he has lost 10% in 30 days. More if you look at the mid-march polling information where the government was 14 points ahead of the opposition
Apr 15th, 2013 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yanqui
Apr 15th, 2013 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Twist all you want, you'll need it. Especially to explain your failed prophecies :)
Failed Prophecies? I said awhile ago the bird was right and pre-stuffed ballot boxes would be sure to work.
Apr 15th, 2013 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think Chavez's last election he got a little over 100% voting for him in Capriles own province...
Now that is an achievement! They must really like him there!
Any thoughts on CFKs plane full of Euros going to Switzerland?
I bet someone is planning a nice retirement party for her as I type.
@13 you watch Lanata? Tell the holdouts to look for the stolen money if they want the debts to get paid. Lazaro Baez is said to have a fortune of 5 BILLION dollars. Imagine how much Cristobal Lopez and CFK have!
Apr 15th, 2013 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0oh look, its Stevie, the crippled, mangled face, freak, anti social, basement dweller, on gov dole, and he's mad again!
Apr 15th, 2013 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 014. I would bet someone is planning her retirement party now, they called Romania to ask how they managed Ceaușescu and his wife's send off. In the end I think the Romanians were pretty happy with the outcome.
Apr 15th, 2013 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is nice about countries run by various dictators is the people seem to know about the HUGE CORRUPTION and for as long as their subsidies continue they trun a blind eye ( no reference to Nestor) . It's when the party stops that things seem to get a little out of hand,
I hope I get invited to the send off...
Let Maduro and CFK sink into the sewer and slowly suffocate.
Apr 15th, 2013 - 05:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A firing squad is too good for them.
Capriles needs to take over when his country completely collapses, not before.
I just so amazed he came so close considering the ballots stuffing.
17. Probably something similar to this:
Apr 15th, 2013 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ
16 yankeeboy
Apr 15th, 2013 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I remember correctly they used Kalashnikovs in the classic 7.62x39 calibre.
A 9mm but especially the 0.45 acp would do the job though. I personally think this would be far too kind for them when you realise the financial and civil damage they have done to AR. It’ just that the Peronistas cannot see for themselves, poor twats.
Mind you we have got to be careful of not upsetting I Can't Think otherwise he will be calling us all sorts of names.
Mind you, who GAF?
Chris if you prefer, I would be satisfied with the same retirement party as Mussolini.
Apr 15th, 2013 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Everyone dies the death that befits his character”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty4sVI-R8Vo&oref
#13 “Failed Prophecies?”
Apr 15th, 2013 - 11:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes failed. If Cristinita leaves office tomorrow, she'll have already lasted years longer than you thought. And the idea that there's going to be a Ceaușescu style uprising and execution in a democracy like Argentina where the government can be dismissed at any election, is just absurd. Reminiscent actually of the wildest fantasies of some of the trot sects who expect a 1917 style armed revolution in today's Britain...
BK, So how many U$ Billions do you think she has stolen while “her people” are denied Cancer and HIV meds?
Apr 15th, 2013 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK is trying to dismantle the very last vestiges of Democracy left in the country or do you read any current news?
#22 If you think crooked judges = the “very last vestiges of democracy” then you're just as (un) likely to be telling the truth about denying people cancer HIV meds. Does anyone serious really think she'd keep winning if she did that?!
Apr 16th, 2013 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0See that BK? That's yanqui twisting again. This time away from his failed prophecies.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Instead he answers with a conveniant fantasy.
Such a trickster this yanqui...
Trickster, Ooh I like it!
Apr 16th, 2013 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0BK I must assume you have never been to Argentina. I have a very good friend who owns a few Pharmacies and he said they must ration what little Cancer and HIV meds that are left in the country.
It is bad
really really bad
She started the import controls AFTER her last elections..duh
You should read an Rg newspaper now and again maybe you would see CFK for the monster she really is...
Yankeeboy
Apr 16th, 2013 - 02:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0There are exceptions. We have everything in Chile, but some meds are far cheaper there. I know as I've been buying a lot from Mendoza as its about a 35% savings. INCUDING those not manufactured in Argentina.
26. It depends on what you're looking for, if it is something made in country, like fake viagra, fake heart medicine, off patent meds you'll be able to get them but it's something lifesaving, new HIV or Cancer meds you can't.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Pharmacies IF they have any supply it is no more than 3 days and people buying them are limited to 1 day. So if you are sick you have to go from place to place to get a weeks worth of meds and usually they are substituting what you should be getting for something that may work.
CFK is killing people and robbing them blind
She needs a retirement party.
Well as expected Maduro won the election, however I imagined it would have been by a much larger margin than it turned out. The lack of charisma and sheer ineptitude of Maduro did surprise me and no matter how hard the fake voters tried they only managed a lousy 230 thousand official vote winning margin. The unofficial result has Capriles ahead by about 2 million votes, unfortunately this will not help him as all Venezuelan elections are well known to be rigged.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway for us in the free part of South America it's steady as she goes, in fact the Maduro win is just what Chileans, Peruvians and Colombians need, because we can show the death spiral that occurs when the alternative Bolivarian model is in place.
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Apr 16th, 2013 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still, a majority of the electorate voted for Maduro. Which is far more than lets say Bush, Cameron, Blair... even Thatcher?
29. So you think, other people think the majority voted for the other guy.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it is hard to predict where this all will come out
I wonder if Capriles can rally the people standing in line for their daily ration of milk, flour and sugar?
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Apr 16th, 2013 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To be honest and setting ideologies aside, I think Capriles is fighting an uphill battle. The military is more Chavista than Maduro...
Mayhap, the basic food rationing, crime rate, constant devaluations is finally waking people up
Apr 16th, 2013 - 04:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0maybe they think this is their last chance
Will be interesting to watch
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Apr 16th, 2013 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If it's not waking people up in Spain, much less so in Venezuela.
But mayhap you are right, mayhap the people need to wake up and push even harder for the Bolivarian project...
;)
@33 Stevie
Apr 16th, 2013 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Mayhap” you troll the same old rubbish time and time again!
That is odd, how in the world did I miss a Euro devaluation and food rationing in The EU.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please post me the links, obviously I'm not as up to date as I thought I was.
retard
31 Stevie . You may be wrong about the military . Did I understand that somebody spoke about an “institutional ” general ? Did Chavez have enough time to completely and absolutely brain wash the officer corps . I doubt it
Apr 17th, 2013 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Baxter
Apr 17th, 2013 - 02:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have this inherited discomfort with the military. I have no idea of the stance of the Venezuelan military, that was merely wishthinking.
About the brain washing, that is your opinion, in my opinion, you are the brain washed one. Chavez has done you nothing bad and he did many people lots of good. What have you done for anybody? Is that why you lot dislike him so much, just because he showed the world that a man actually can do something for others even if it doesn't result in net profit?
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