Voices without Votes » Venezuela: Thoughts on Election Day

After the daily speech about the Empire, the elections, and the possibility that the United States could have what some call “their own Chavez,” a lot of blogs dedicated some space on the expectation that many parts of the world share today's excitement with the States. Bloggers are expressing online what they feel about both candidates, while some others see Obama as a big possibility for change inside and outside the country. The dark, humorous tone, so characteristically Venezuelan, never ceased to be contained inside the posts…

Hugo Chavez in

Buscar de todo ^[1] says:

AmÃ©rica Latina se mantiene atenta a las elecciones de Estados Unidos, a calificar al menos por sus gobiernos y medios de comunicaciÃ³n, paÃs con el cual la regiÃ³n no sÃ³lo mantiene mÃ¡s comercio, sino porque ademÃ¡s vive un proceso polÃtico sin precedentes.

Independientemente de quien gane las elecciones presidenciales del martes, el senador demÃ³crata Barack Obama o su contrincante republicano John McCain, serÃ¡ la primera vez que un hombre de color llegue a la Casa Blanca o bien que lo haga el hombre de mÃ¡s edad. McCain tiene 72 aÃ±os.

La contienda electoral, a la vez, ha estado llena de sorpresas y en medio de ella detonÃ³ una crisis financiera en Estados Unidos que puso a vibrar a medio mundo.

Latin America follows attentively the elections in USA, which is seen in their governments’ attitudes and also through the media, since they maintain a lot of commercial attachments with the United States and they feel this country is passing through a historical movement.

No matter who wins the elections, in any case they will be historical: it will be the first time in history that an African American or a man over 70 gets into the White House.

Also, these elections have been full of surprises, and in the middle, a financial crisis exploded in the country and that shook everybody

Also, inside a very irreverent post, Hay que ser irresponsable ^[2] said:

Obama es el Malcolm X que un catire puede aceptar, el Gandhi rockandrollero, el soÃ±ador que parece peligroso para el sistema pero bueno para los ciudadanos. Alguien que Jhon Lennon apoyarÃa. Un tipo que hasta el Presidente venezolano ha dicho: “me sentarÃa a hablar con Ã©l” y “nace una luz de esperanza” (…) y hasta el canciller cubano, PÃ©rez Roque, le ha brindado la mano. Este es mi presidente, casi podemos escuchar en espaÃ±ol, porque en Europa ya se dice en varios idiomas.

Obama is the Malcolm X that a white man (in Venezuela) can accept, a rock-and-roll Gandhi that looks dangerous to the System but good to the citizens. Someone whom John Lennon would support. A guy that the Venezuelan President see as a “new light of hope” with which he would sit and talk to, according to his own words and that even the Cuban chancellor, PÃ©rez Roque, has given his hand to. ‘This is my President’ we can almost hear in Spanish, since in Europe this is said in many languages

Resistencia Caracas and Noticias 24 ^[3]
follow the election from close.

Nevertheless, in Noticias 24‘s comments, an opinion takes place in the form of a very dark song:

Obama no va a ganar
Y si gana no termina,
Esa oscura medicina
Es difÃcil de tragar.

Se los puedo asegurar
Por convicciÃ³n y por fe,
Me atrevo apostarles que:
Obama no va a ganar.

Presi negro no camina
Y menos hijo de Ala,
Le juro no llegarÃ¡
Y si gana no termina.

A Bush le tienen inquina
Y al suyo lo va a afectar,
Pero no es para aceptar
Esa oscura medicina.

A pesar del malestar
A la hora del proceso,
Van a decidir que eso
Es difÃcil de tragar.

Obama won't win
And if he does, he won't finish up
That dark medicin is very difficult to take

I can assure you
By my conviction and faith
I dear to bet, Obama will win not

A black Pres won't fly
Even less if he's a son of Allah
I swear he'll win not, and if he does he'll finish not

In the time of the discomfort
In the time of the process
They're going to say, it is too difficult to take.