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Posted on September 27, 2010 | tags

 
 

World: Hugo Chavez’s hold on Venezuela started to loosen

  • good Chavez’s party managed to stay in power in Venezuela’s just-finished parliamentary elections.
  • bad Chavez’s Socialist Party wasn’t able to keep a hold on their two-thirds majority in the election.
  • worse The opposition Democratic Unity party had 52 percent of the popular vote. source