Chavez wins recall vote in Venezuela

Hugo Chavez (Huge Chav) has defeated the right-wing opposition in Venezuela to remain in office as President.

The hero of the workers, the poor, Indians and afro-Indians is hated by the broadly white right-wing middle class (possibly to do with the way they now have to pay taxes). They maintain that the referrendum was 'a massive fraud', though we will have to wait for the response from international monitors.