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Oh, man, it is hard to wade through all the disinformation circulating about this stuff, but exit polls have the reform passing by between six and eight points. I will try to get some good information for you, but... well... you know. Venezuelanalysis is getting slammed and very hard to open pages there, but here is a complete summary of all the articles being reformed in their constitution, and here's an article about a subversive video recently found. If you speak Spanish, perhaps you could watch the video and see if there's merit to this.

For a less biased source, here's Xinhua on the subject. It seems to be very true that he's cutting us off if we cause any trouble.

Yesterday:...President Hugo Chavez told over 500,000 supporters at the final campaign rally in favor of the proposed constitutional reform on Friday, "If the ‘yes' vote wins on Sunday and the Venezuelan oligarchy, playing the [U.S.] empire's game, comes with their little stories of fraud," he will suspend all oil shipments to the U.S immediately. "The U.S. will not receive one drop of oil," he declared. Chavez also warned private media against promoting violence and destabilization after the referendum.

Beginning in the early hours of the morning, a sea of red [shirts] filled Avenida Bolivar, the capital's principal boulevard and overflowed into Avenidas Mexico, Lecuna, San Martin, and Universidad, dwarfing an opposition rally of around 200,000 the day before, as Chavez supporters wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘Yes to the reforms' danced and sang as they waited for Chavez who spoke at 5 in the afternoon.

I sure hope we don't cut him off... as is our wont. I like him for the same reasons I like Putin.