Republicans pressure Hugo Chavez to have Fair Venezuela elections
-what about Florida?
Several congressmen arrived here yesterday on a 24-hour trip designed to persuade President Hugo Chavez and his opponents to allow an Aug. 15 recall vote to proceed without violence and electoral shenanigans. "Our hope is just to have a basic, transparent, honest election, and our plan is to tell him that," Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.) said here yesterday. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is close to Cuba's Fidel Castro. Ballenger chairs the Internationa Relations subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs and is a founding member of the U.S.-Venezuelan Interparliamentary Forum. "He wants to win this thing by hook or by crook," Ballenger said before arriving, referring to the vote on whether to recall Chavez. "We are going there to make sure that nothing busts loose." [more]
Several congressmen arrived here yesterday on a 24-hour trip designed to persuade President Hugo Chavez and his opponents to allow an Aug. 15 recall vote to proceed without violence and electoral shenanigans. "Our hope is just to have a basic, transparent, honest election, and our plan is to tell him that," Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.) said here yesterday. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is close to Cuba's Fidel Castro. Ballenger chairs the Internationa Relations subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs and is a founding member of the U.S.-Venezuelan Interparliamentary Forum. "He wants to win this thing by hook or by crook," Ballenger said before arriving, referring to the vote on whether to recall Chavez. "We are going there to make sure that nothing busts loose." [more]