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According to the poll, 63 percent viewed the government as corrupt while only 29 percent did not. Poll respondents were asked, Is corruption widespread throughout the government, or not? In 2012, 63% of Venezuelans believed there was corruption in government, similar to the 68% who said so in 2011. This would seem to support the opposition's narrative that Chavez ran a corrupt, unaccountable government, according to Gallups poll summary.
The poll summary added that the results contradict one of Chavezs main parts of his platform, which was to combat corruption. Chavez also made combatting corruption a major plank of his platform in his original campaign for office, indicating much of the country believes his government failed to deliver on this objective, the summary said.
Moreover, 74 percent of Venezuelan adults said they do not feel safe walking alone at night, which according to Gallup was significantly higher than other Latin American countries. Moreover, this figure has remained remarkably high over the past six years, suggesting a failure by the Chavez government and the need for whomever his replacement is to address this important issue, the summary said.
Corruption and safety issues aside, Chavezs job approval rating was 57 percent in 2012, the highest percentage Gallup recorded in the last six years. Socialist President Hugo Chavez died on Mar. 5 after battling cancer, only two weeks after he returned to Venezuela from Cuba, where he had received treatment. Chavez had been in power for 14 years. This Sunday, Venezuelans will go to the polls and decide between Chavez-successor Nicolas Maduro and challenger Henrique Capriles Radonski.
Gallup: 63% of Venezuelans Thought Chavez Gov?t Was Corrupt | CNS News
A survey by the polling company DatinCorp, published this week, found the gap between Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelas interim president and the flag bearer of Chavez socialist Bolivarian revolution, and Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles, had narrowed to a single percentage point. Maduros 44-43 point lead over his rival, which DatinCorp said in electoral terms amounts to a tie, compares to his 45-37 point lead recorded in an earlier DatinCorp poll, published in the second half of March. Another new poll held even more promising news for Capriles, who as the oppositions candidate in last Octobers presidential election lost to Chavez by 11 percentage points.
Datamatica, an Argentinian pollster, announced earlier this week that Capriles was now almost five points ahead of Maduro in its survey of voting intentions in Sundays election, conducted by phone across 18 of Venezuelas 23 states. Datamaticas Ivan Rodriguez told a press conference Capriles support had risen from 21.7 to 39.7 percentage points, while Maduros had plummeted from 55.6 to 34.9 points. Rodriguez said Datamatica had a similar trend in Colombias presidential election in 2010. (Columbian President Juan Manuel Santos lagged in the polls behind his runoff rival until late the campaign, before winning by a landslide.)
The apparent shift has been dramatic: Since Chavez lost his battle with cancer on March 5, the abbreviated campaign to succeed him has seen at least nine previous opinion polls put Maduro in the lead, by as much as 35 points. On Sunday, Capriles drew crowds of more than 100,000 to a rally in central Caracas, and told his supporters the turnout was further evidence that he would defy predictions and win. Maduro, who has lashed out at the United States in remarks reminiscent of Chavez, has pledged to appoint a special inquiry to investigate whether the late president was assassinated by being inoculated with cancer cells.
Venezuelas El Universal newspaper quoted Maduro as saying he suspected that Chavez was killed in this way by enemies wishing to take him out of the road which leads to both the Venezuelan and Latin American peoples revolution. He hinted strongly at who he believed was responsible: The American Empire creates such viruses in order to do experiments; they have been involved in it since 1940, the paper quoted him as saying. These are methods of biological war, of germ warfare. Meanwhile Maduro continues to use the resources of the state to promote his election campaign.
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Really? I'm so shocked! How did we NOT see this coming. It seems Chavez has us over a barrel....
