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The [[European Union]] condemned the conditions placed on election monitors as unacceptable and declined to attend.  The Carter Center was shut out for three days.  Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have identified signs of fraud based on statistical analysis.<ref>http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/world/americas/3924-the-carter-stamp-of-approval-on-the-venueuzlan-election-less-than-worthless.html</ref>

The [[European Union]] condemned the conditions placed on election monitors as unacceptable and declined to attend.  The Carter Center was shut out for three days.  Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have identified signs of fraud based on statistical analysis.<ref>http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/world/americas/3924-the-carter-stamp-of-approval-on-the-venueuzlan-election-less-than-worthless.html</ref>

The ideology of Hugo Chavez was notably influenced by Jorge Antonio Giordani Cordero, a Venezuelan Marxist, who Chavez later tapped as a close advisor and planning minister.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-giordani/venezuela-becoming-laughing-stock-ex-chavez-economic-guru-says-idUSKBN0L71KV20150203 ]</ref>

The ideology of Hugo Chavez was notably influenced by Jorge Antonio Giordani Cordero, a Venezuelan Marxist, who Chavez later tapped as a close advisor and planning minister.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-giordani/venezuela-becoming-laughing-stock-ex-chavez-economic-guru-says-idUSKBN0L71KV20150203 Venezuela becoming 'laughing stock', ex-Chavez economic guru says]</ref>  Giordani was Chavez's economics tutor, who later would visit Chavez while he was in prison.<ref>[https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n04/richard-gott/robinson-s-footprints Richard Gott writes about Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan Revolution]</ref>

==Human rights concerns==

==Human rights concerns==