Venezuelan people, there is a mechanism that any elected official can be recalled. The opposition launched a multi-million dollar campaign against Chavez with the support of the U.S. government agency National Endowment for Democracy. In fact, $54,000 of those funds went to the group that gathered the 20% of the voters needed to sign the recall.Millions of voters headed to the polls and waited more that 8 hours in line to cast their vote. The election had the presence of several international observers such as Jimmy Carter of the Carter Center and Csar Gaviria as Secretary General of the Organization of American States. One of the claims of the opposition was that they would only accept the results if international organizations acting as observers approve them. At the end of the day the Electoral National Council said that President Chavez won the recall by 59.25 percent of the votes. Moreover, the international observers endorsed the results of Venezuela's recall referendum. The latest polls show that President Chavez increased his