Mixed results for freedom

First the good news. That clown Hugo Chavez, albeit a dangerous one, has lost his bid to set himself as president-for-life. In reality the vote was to remove the term limits for Venezuelan heads-of-state.

Ardent Chavez supporter Sean Penn is surely disappointed.

Now the bad: In Russia, Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party won an overwhelming victory in yesterday's parliamentary elections, ones that have been called suspicious.

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