Peru Kicks Venezuelan BUTT Chavez!

In a move sure to give heartburn to lefty utopian communist sympathizers in the United States, voters in Peru choose to return a not so good former president rather than become a satellite of Venezuela.
From AP Reports:

LIMA, Peru — Former President Alan Garcia defeated an ex-army nationalist in Peru's runoff election on Sunday, a stunning comeback for a politician whose first term ended in economic ruin and rebel violence.

Garcia's victory was a blow to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had endorsed his rival Ollanta Humala, a political upstart deemed dangerous to democracy by many Peruvians.

"We've rescued independence," Garcia, Peru's president from 1985-90, told thousands of ebullient supporters even before the official results were announced.

He said voters had sent an overwhelming message to Chavez that they rejected the "strategy of expansion of a militaristic, retrograde model that he has tried to impose in South America."

Chavez has already extended his regional influence in gaining a loyal ally with the December election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president. Like Morales, Humala had pledged to punish a corrupt political establishment and redistribute wealth to his country's poor Indian and mestizo majority.

Garcia held an insurmountable lead of 55.5 percent against 44.5 percent for Humala with 77.3 percent of the vote counted, said the head of the electoral agency, Magdalena Chu

Amazing... even a failed former President of Peru garners more votes than any possible democratic agreement with the looming cloud of Marxist revolution and defeat which plagues Venezuela. Too bad the folks of Venezuela don't have the same democratic opportunity as those in Peru!