Last Friday, President Hugo Chavez talked to the Diplomatic corps for almost four hours (thru lunch!) attempting to prove that the opposition had committed major fraud in gathering the petition to have a recall referendum against him and to show that there was no repression (which he confirmed) and the opposition was to blame for it.
Well, even the Guardian in the UK is laughing at President Chavez. Emiliano Chavez shown below has National ID number 2550083 and President Chávez suggested that he either was dead or did not exist.

Well, Emiliano himself, who is 61 years old, said that he is not only alive but he did sign the petition to recall Chavez. Chavez (no relation) suggested the president has bad advice, affirming: I signed, and I am willing to do it again.
Then there is Maria Gregoria Ibarra, National ID number 5070673, who Chavez said did not exist but confirmed, today that she is very much alive and that is her number.
Finally, Nancy Consalvi de Rangel showed up at the Unidad Headquarters to say that she did exist and that was also her national ID number despite the President’s claims that she had used an ID number that did not belong to her.
Well, Chavez attempted to show with a statistically insignificant number of cases that the opposition had committed fraud, but in the all he showed was that there was no fraud and that those surrounding him are too incompetent to even try to cook up charges of fraud against the opposition.

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