Hugo Chavez won Venezuela election on Sunday.Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez won Venezuela re-election with 54.42 per cent of the vote. At around 10.00 p.m. Sunday local time (0230 GMT Monday), the National Election Council announced Chavez carried 54.42 percent of the vote, compared with 44.47 percent for rival Henrique Capriles.
Capriles, representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable coalition, accepted defeat as soon as the result was announced, and said he hoped that Chavez would be a good president.
“For me, the will of the people is sacred,” Capriles told reporters at his campaign headquarters.”And I would like to thank the more than six million Venezuelans who placed their trust in me.”
Chavez’s victory would extend his rule of the OPEC member state to two decades, though he is recovering from cancer and the possibility of a recurrence hangs over his political future.
Jubilant supporters poured onto the streets of Caracas to celebrate the victory of a man who has near-Messianic status among Venezuela’s poor, and there was relief too among leftist allies around the region – from Cuba to Bolivia – who rely on his oil-financed generosity.
Since taking power in 1999, Hugo Chavez the flamboyant former soldier has become a global flag bearer of anti-imperialism, gleefully baiting the U.S. government while befriending leaders from Iran to Belarus whom the West views with suspicion.