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Home - Top Headlines #2 Stunning Defeat for Hugo Chavez

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Writer
CARACAS, Venezuela Dec 3, 2007 (AP)

Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.

"I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense," he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.

World - International News #2 Reporters Notebook: Chavez Gracious in Defeat

Reporter's Notebook By JEFFREY KOFMAN
CARACAS, VENEZUELA, Dec. 3, 2007

It was a sea of red in the in the press room of Miraflores Palace, the official residence of Venezuela's president.

Not only the red carpet, the red chairs, the red poinsettia flowers (conveniently, it is Christmas season) but also the guards, attaches and state media, all dressed in the bright red of Chavistas, the loyal leftist followers of Venezuela's controversial and charismatic president, Hugo Chavez.

...This country has a modern and sophisticated system of electronic voting machines that print paper backup ballots for added security....