Why don't you shut up? (UPDATE)

Hot Air says Chavez is conceding his referendum.

Somewhere I saw that Chavez said that a "No" vote on the referendum was a vote for George Bush. So I guess Bush just won the Venezuelan election.

Whatever; I don't see Chavez dealing with this gracefully.

PS: Quick, Jimmy Carter, go save him!

PPS: Confidential to King Juan Carlos of Spain: Salud!

UPDATE: Let me play the role of Allahpundit here and make sure you don't get too comfortable:

Mr. Morales has met substantial civic resistance to his power grab. So last week his government moved to resolve the problem by employing the military, the national police and paramilitaries to physically block elected members of the opposition from entering the constituent assembly in Sucre and the national legislature in La Paz -- so that it could push through its centralizing agenda.

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Why remote Bolivia should be important to Washington may not be any more apparent at this time than Afghanistan was prior to 2001. But there is a reason that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited La Paz at the end of September. Bolivia matters to hemispheric stability. In 1967, Che Guevara recognized that Bolivia's borders with Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile gave it enormous strategic value. So did the anticommunist government which killed him there that year. Thirty years later Bolivia's potential to destabilize remains.