Friday, June 02, 2006

The surprising pro-Uribe vote of Colombians in Venezuela I was a little surprised by the votes of Colombians that live in Venezuela in the Colombian Presidential election. The profile of Colombian immigrants is not that of the Venezuelan population at large, thus you would expect the vote to be less pro-Uribe than Colombia's numbers. The opposite was true. Uribe got over 95% in Puerto la Cruz and Merida, over 85% in Puerto Ordaz, 77% in Tachira, Valencia and Barinas. In Caracas in middle class Baruta he got 81.6%, while in Chavez' stronghold Catia, he got 66.7%. In Catia, Chavistas actually tried to get the vote out against Uribe. All the voting centers had more pro-Uribe votes that the National vote in Colombia which gave Uribe the victory with 62% of the vote. Different socio-cultural patterns or do Colombians simply count the votes correctly? Or both? 12:27:44 PM    comment []