Chavez Wins... Again

Venezuelan President Chavez Wins Re-Election

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won re-election, giving him six more years to use the country's oil wealth to help the poor and stir up anti-U.S. sentiment in Latin America. Chavez took 61 percent of the vote while opposition candidate Manuel Rosales took 38 percent, based on 78 percent of the votes counted by the National Electoral Council. "I surrender myself to the Venezuelan people," Chavez told backers who crowded around the Presidential Palace in Caracas and roared their approval. Chavez sung the national anthem from the palace balcony as fireworks lit up the sky. "Long live Venezuela. Long live the Socialist Revolution. Long Live Bolivar."