I read that Chavez systematically had everyone fired from any Government job or with the Oil industry that signed the recall petition against him. Jimmy Carter still validated his fraudulent election.
Yup.
This is classic Chavez. Whenever a scandal hits, Chavez either:
a. Accuses the US of planning an invasion or there is a CIA plot, blah, blah, blah.
b. Tries to infuriate the opposition to goad them.
c. all of the above.
Read about the latest happenings on Chavez on http://www.vcrisis.com
Seems that the even the poor are starting to get tired of the piddly handouts and are starting to see the huge corruption laced happenings, even with the attempted censoring of the media.
And oh yeah, the fact that the "polling company" that the Venezuelan government has been claiming to be using and showing heavy favoritism for Chavez....turns out the polling company hasn't existed for years now.