Depressing:The United States Tuesday welcomed Venezuela's "civic" referendum lifting term limits for the president and all politicians, but urged support for democracy and tolerance in the country.
"We congratulate the civic and participatory spirit of the millions of Venezuelans who exercized their democratic right to vote," State Department spokesman Noel Clay told AFP.
Venezuelans on Sunday voted 54 percent in favor of constitutional reform sought by President Hugo Chavez to run for unlimited reelection, in his bid to consolidate his brand of socialism critics compare to Cuba's communism.
This is the same guy that said the US is a terrorist state and called Bush the devil. Now the State Department gives a hat tip to his lifetime power grab.
Maybe I'm alone, but I don't always think it's only important that someone voted, but sometimes what and whom they voted for.
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