Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez won re-election on Sunday, quashing the opposition’s best chance at unseating him in 14 years and cementing himself as a dominant figure in modern Latin American history.
The 58-year-old Chavez took 54.42 percent of the vote, with 90 percent of the ballots counted, to 44.97 percent for the young opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, official results showed.
READ ON: Venezuela’s Chavez re-elected to extend socialist ruleYou have to give him credit for successfully bouncing back from his health issues. He was in bad shape a year ago.
sobbing and beyond sad. I haven’t been home in 7 years and this man has done nothing but ruin the place I call home. I can’t wait till he dies.
