Chavez hailed by 10 Latin countries
Former US president Jimmy Carter and other international election monitors pledged to go the extra mile to dispel opposition claims that a failed Venezuelan referendum that sought to oust President Hugo Chavez was rigged, and to prevent further political upheaval.
Today, they will be witnesses as local election officials check a random sampling of results from 150 voting stations – a rare follow-up move to an election they have already said looked clean.
