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Monday, October 8, 2012

Hugo Chavez Wins Venezuelan Presidential Election

President Hugo Chavez  Re-elected  


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was re-elected on Sunday Oct 7,2012 to a 4th term who polled 54.42 % of the votes with about 90 % of the ballots counted while Henrique Capriles, the unified opposition candidate, received 44.97 %.


Chavez had secured 7.4 million votes and Capriles 6.1 million votes, election officials said.


Chavez, who has been president since 1999, defeated Henrique Capriles Radonski, whose campaign criticized the Chavez administration for inefficiencies, infrastructure shortcomings and corruption.


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