New Poll Gives Venezuela’s Chavez 82.7% Approval Rating

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1934

Caracas, Venezuela, April 4, 2006—According to the latest survey conducted by the Venezuelan Institute for Data Analysis (IVAD), 82.7% of the Venezuelan population looks favorably upon the job done by President Hugo Chavez.

Of those interviewed; 22.9% said the President had done a regular to good job; 41.8% good; 18.4% excellent; 5.7% regular to bad; 5.5% bad and 4.6% terrible.

The opinion poll was conducted between March 14 and 17, among 1,200 individuals from Caracas, nine other state Capitals, and other smaller populations around the country.

The same poll declared that 61.6% of those surveyed did not know who should be the primary opposition candidate in the December 3 presidential elections. Nevertheless, Julio Borges, from the Primero Justicia (Justice First) party, received the most support among the potential opposition presidential candidates, at 8.9%, which is nowhere near the support President Chavez received at 61.4%. These latest numbers regarding Borges and Chavez have increased approximately 5% since similar IVAD polls where held in January.

[FloridaPat]

1. Maybe we can vote to join Venezuela. Have a decent president

with a brain.

[RDANGELO]

2. This guy has been reelected

survived coups and recalls, and all the polls in the US characterize him as a tyrant.

[malachibk]

3. I had a long talk with a colleague of mine today who's from Venezuela

He's a fairly progressive guy, so keep that in mind

I have recently talked up Chavez to people so keep that in mind, too

So, seems like Chavez might actually be a tyrant

My friend says:

*All of the free dental/health clinics have closed

*Chavez is teaching people to read, giving them high school diplomas, putting through medical school and demanding that hospitals hire them before candidates from private medical schools. And this only takes 2.5 years.

*Chavez has 100% control of the media. While my friend says he doesn't lie, Chavez just doesn't tell the citizens anything. There is NO live news.

*My friend has had 4 cousins and an uncle, who for generations were farmers on their small parcel of land, forced to give up all their property but their house. Now the military lives on their old farm.

*Also, supposedly the truly wealthy people of Venezuela are not being asked to sacrifice, but rather the middle class is systematically being destroyed.

OK, so those were the main points. I had read such accusations before but dismissed them since so many outlets that I respect spoke basically well (unconvinced, but well) of Chavez. I started out doubtful but my friend did start to change my mind. I'm a bit disappointed, to tell you the truth and will have to do a bit of research.





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[rockymountaindem]

4. Wait for the Chavez fan club to pile on you now.

One time when I suggested maybe not everybody is happy with Chavez, someone told me that only fascists and the "old ruling class" could possibly be unhappy with him, and that I was a fellow traveller of theirs for my statements.

Personally, I'm agnostic about Chavez, I hear too much stuff like this to think very highly of him, but I don't think he's as bad as Castro.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Yeah. But he's "too liberal" for the Red States.

Just ask the DLC.