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Yesterday the citizens of Venezuela passed a referendum to remove presidential term limits with a margin of about 8%. President Chávez said of the result:

It is a clear victory for the people.

Although back in 2007, during the broadcast of episode 291 of Chávez weekly television serial, Aló Presidente, Chávez showed his self-serving bias when he pressed Rory Carroll of the Guardian for a question. Carroll, who was in attendance with other members of the international press, did not have one primed; so he asked why the president wanted the right to be elected indefinitely, while not granting the same rights to the 23 state governors.
After bloviating for some hour and a half, Chávez returned to Carroll’s query with two simple statements:

That is how I conceive it. It’s a political conception.

Chávez lost that referendum by less than 2 percent and two days later stated:

There is nothing to celebrate. We have not lost anything. And get ready because a new offensive is on its way for the proposed reform, this one transformed, simplified. But I am sure- For me, it’s not a defeat, it’s another [Por ahora] for now.

The revised referendum passed this year also allows Venezuela’s mayors and governors to run indefinitely.