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Article: Judging the Bolivarian Revolution; Venezuela's referendum.(The referendum on Venezuela's Hugo Chavez)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2004
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A lot for the voters to chew on
A polarised and declining country prepares to vote on whether or not to recall its president, Hugo Chavez
IN THE first such vote anywhere, on Sunday August 15th, Venezuela's 14m voters will be asked if they want to get rid of their elected president in the middle of his term. If President Hugo Chavez, a controversial former lieutenant-colonel, survives this recall referendum, it will be an endorsement of his "Bolivarian Revolution", named after Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan-born hero of South American independence. Should he lose, Venezuela faces an early election and uncharted ground. Either way, the outcome will be ...