[Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was handed his first electoral loss since winning the presidency seven years ago when he narrowly lost a controversial referendum on 69 proposed changes to the constitution earlier this month. Below a debate hosted recently by Democracy Now between Greg Wilpert, author of 'Changing Venezuela by Taking Power', and Francisco Rodriguez, the former chief economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly .]
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