On Dec. 28, 2006, Hugo Chavez played a joke on the radio for Dia de los Inocentes, the Latin American equivalent of April Fool's Day. He announced that he was tired of being president and was going to resign. After a short pause, he impishly shouted, ''Ha ha! Gotcha!" Almost four years later, many in Venezuela feel as if the joke is still on them as elections become less of a civic exercise and more of a tool of the regime to cement its incremental autocracy.
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