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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (7420)	12/3/2007 10:33:54 AM
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Chavez defeated over reform vote Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has narrowly lost a referendum on controversial constitutional changes. Voters rejected the reforms, which included allowing a president to stand indefinitely for re-election, by 51% of the vote to 49%, officials said. Mr Chavez accepted the result and urged his followers to remain calm. Mr Chavez said his reform agenda would go on but correspondents say the result will put a brake on his self-styled "socialist revolution". Celebrations began almost immediately in the capital, Caracas, among activists who had opposed the president's raft of proposals, which included ending limits on presidential terms, halting the central bank's autonomy and cutting the working week. "Venezuela won today, democracy won today, and I am sure that this victory for the Venezuelan people will have a very important impact in the rest of Latin America," Leopoldo Lopez, opposition mayor of the Chacao of Caracas, municipality, told the BBC... news.bbc.co.uk

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