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Neo-Post-Retro-Revivalist
If you consider candidate and voter intimidation, intimidation of international observers restriction on media access to opposition candidates, procedural irregularities, violations of immigration and nationalization laws, blocking international observers from voting centers, unlawfully manipulating voter registration, mass firing of pro-opposition poll workers, and numerous other actions intended to change the outcome of the election* to be free and fair, then you are either very badly informed, or have a rather different definition of the terms than the majority of the rest of the world.the elections are free and fair according to international elections observers.
*citation: "Venezuelan Presidential Recall Referendum, as seen by US International Observers Curtis Reed and Steve Henley." 2004.