In 2004, one of them was sent as an observer to the Venezuelan recall referendum.
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It notes that in some peasant communities Mr Morales won almost 100% of the votes in the recall referendum.
Most opposition supporters, and some moderate chavistas too, now think that the recall referendum is the best way out of Venezuela's agony.
Chavez authorized a Venezuelan congressman to obtain copies of the list of signatures of those who signed the petition for the recall referendum.
For this English-language edition, the authors have added a brief postscript to a narrative that stops with their subject's victory in a recall referendum in August 2004.
In an innovation which he once championed but now seems to regret, this allows for a recall referendum, once an elected official has served half his term, and provided that 20% of the electorate requests one.
In May, 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales set August 10th as the date for a recall referendum that would allow voters to cut short his term in office, as well as those of his vice president and the country's eight provincial governors.
But as Bolivians prepare to vote in a recall referendum on August 10th, in which they will be asked either to confirm or eject both Evo Morales, their socialist president, and the country's elected regional governors, who include some of his strongest foes, they may merely lock one of South America's poorest countries into an impasse between irreconcilable factions.
Several months ago though, with the recall of state senators, and the defeat of a referendum in Ohio, it seemed like just the opposite was true and that organized labor was back due to Republican overreached.
The drive to recall Mr Walker picked up steam last November after unions defeated similar measures at a referendum in Ohio, and since then over 900, 000 Wisconsinites have signed the petition demanding Mr Walker face a fresh election, almost twice the number needed.
The drive to recall him picked up steam last November, after unions defeated a similarly restrictive collective-bargaining law in a referendum in Ohio.
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