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Hugo Chavez 'loses' by a whisker
December 03, 2007
Venezuela's voters handed President Hugo Chavez his first ever ballot-box defeat on the weekend, rejecting constitutional changes in a referendum that would have greatly expanded his powers and turned their oil-rich country into a socialist state.
"I don't feel sad, no, I don't feel sad," a chastened-looking Chavez told the media, stressing that he had lost by only a 'minimal' margin and that he was encouraged by the support he did get.
Image: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a press conference in Caracas on Monday.
Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
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