Tensions had surged in recent weeks as university students led protests and occasionally clashed with police and Chavista groups.Jose Miguel Gomez / ReutersOpponents of Venezuela's proposed constitutional changes celebrate their victory Sunday night.Chavez made it clear, though, that he has no intention of abandoning his petrodollar-fueled attempt to turn Venezuela into a socialist state. He has progressively steamrolled the opposition, his allies controlling the National Assembly and most other elected posts.
And he suggested he hasn’t given up on his vision of permanently leaving his mark. Echoing words he spoke when as an army officer he was captured leading a failed 1992 coup, he said: “For now, we couldn’t.”
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