and the NOs have it!!!!!!!!!

Yes folks, it's true. How do I know? Well at about precisely 1:19 last night/morning I was awoken with a start by the entirety of our apartment complex (13 apartment buildings of like 8 stories each) banging on their windows, setting off firecrackers and man-made bombs (purely for the noise effect) and yelling and chanting at the top of their lungs......this proceeded for a couple minutes as I lay in my bed very confused, and a little scared of the bomb noises, for about 2 minutes, and then everything went silent........This had been the drumroll leading up to the announcing of the election results on the TV......And the results are in: By an extremely thin margin (last I heard it was 50.7%) the Reformas have failed!!!!!! That means that Chavez (essentially) was defeated. The party in our parking lot continued for quite a while as people marched through and out to the street out front to celebrate. Although I hadn't been anticipating such a midnight wake up call, I was actually not bothered being awake but rather excited for Venezuela and felt blessed to finally be in the middle of a joyous celebration rather than an angry revolt. All this to say.....God Bless Venezuela, who knows what will happen now....but no matter what, God reigns here the same as anywhere else. All praise and power and glory to His name alone. Amen!