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  • VENEZUELAN REFERENDUM A Post-Mortem and its Aftermath
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Prof. James PETRAS
    Venezuela’s constitutional reforms supporting President Chavez’s socialist project were defeated by the narrowest of margins: 1.4% of 9 million voters. The result however was severely compromised by the fact that 45% of the electorate abstained, meaning that only 28% of the electorate voted against the progressive changes proposed by President Chavez.
    While the vote was a blow to Venezuela’s attempt to extricate itself from oil dependence and capitalist control over (…)

  • Referendum : Venezuela’s Social Democracy Hits A Speed Bump
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hugo Chavez addressed upwards of a half million supporters on the final day of campaigning for constitutional reform on December 1. He was confident of a victory that seemed assured. The turnout was impressive as a sea of red filled Caracas’ main Avenida Bolivar boulevard and spilled over into adjourning streets. It dwarfed the November 29 final opposition rally Rupert Murdock’s Times online/UK and Fox News estimated at "more than 100,000" ahead of saying "polls predicted an agonizingly (…)

  • Chavez wins referendum: gov’t sources
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Saul Hudson and Ana Isabel Martinez
    CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appeared headed for victory on Sunday in a referendum on allowing the leftist to rule for as long as he keeps winning elections, government-linked sources said, citing exit polls.
    Three exit polls showed Chavez won by between six and eight percentage points in a vote where turnout was low, the two sources said.
    If confirmed, it would be by far the slimmest victory margin in the career of a man (…)

  • The Return of Juan Forero, or Why NPR Still Sucks Ass
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Transcript – NPR Weekend Edition – Saturday December 1, 2007
    John Itzky interviews Juan Forero in Caracas concerning the December 2nd Constitutional referendum. The italics are mine. (Flávio Américo dos Reis).
    ITZKY: Venezuelans go to the polls tomorrow to vote on proposed constitutional changes that would give president Hugo Chávez more power. Chávez says the changes would streamline bureaucracy, and give power to community councils run by the people. But opponents say it’s a power (…)

  • VENEZUELA: Another CIA sponsored Coup D’Etat?
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Prof James PETRAS
    Venezuela’s D-Day: Democratic Socialism or Imperial Counter-Revolution The December 2, 2007 Constituent Referendum
    On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which will influence the referendum this Sunday (December 2, 2007). The memo sent by an embassy official, Michael Middleton Steere, was addressed to the head of (…)

  • EU polls would be lost, says Nicolas Sarkozy
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
    Referendums on the new European Union Treaty were "dangerous" and would be lost in France, Britain and other countries, Nicolas Sarkozy has admitted. - EU subsidies ’shifting away from real farmers’ - Your view: Are referendums dangerous? - Paris faces strike gridlock
    The French president’s confession that governments could not win popular votes on a "simplified treaty" - drawn up to replace the EU constitution rejected by his countrymen two years ago - (…)

  • Vancouver Celebrates the Anniversary of the Referendum Victory in Venezuela
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Miriam Martin Hands Off Venezuela Vancouver, Canada
    It has been one year since the majority of Venezuelans voted in favour of President Chavez in the opposition-led recall referendum. The Vancouver Internationalist Bolivarian Circle “Bob Everton” teamed up with Hands Off Venezuela to throw a Victory Fiesta on Saturday August 13th to celebrate this important anniversary. Eighty people attended the celebration, representing a good number of Vancouver’s Latin American solidarity groups, (…)

  • The constitution is dead. Long live proper politics
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Like Amish teenagers, Europe’s voters were not offered a truly free choice
    Amish communities practise the institution of rumspringa. At 17 their children, until then subject to strict family discipline, are set free. They are allowed, solicited even, to go out and experience the ways of the modern world - they drive cars, listen to pop music, watch TV and get involved in drinking, drugs and wild sex. After a couple of years they are expected to decide: will they return to be full members (…)

  • France’s Magnificent Non!
    5 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    Itinerant pundits touching down briefly in Paris lost no time in stigmatizing the French for their resounding Non! in last week’s referendum on the proposed Constitution for Europe. The French were charged with selfishness, self-absorption, nostalgia for a lost empire, unwholesome obsession with Descartes and Jacobinism and other crimes too frightful for individual citation.
    Actually the French did something both logical and heroic. The logic, supposedly a French (…)

  • French and Dutch Patriots Rout the New World Order
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael James in Frankfurt, Germany - June 1, 2005
    On May 29, 2005, under a blazing sun, a raggle-taggle army of French patriots, nationalists, libertarians, conservatives, socialists and communists joined together as one in an unprecedented strategic alliance and mounted a stunning, crippling attack on the New World Order in the heart of Europe.
    Just three days later, fired by the courage of their French cousins to the south, the Dutch people rallied to the standard and put to flight (…)