First, voters in Colombia re-elected their pro-American President, Alvaro Uribe, to a second term. Yesterday, Peruvian voters elected a president who explicitly ran as the anti-Hugo Chavez candidate. Chavez had injected himself into Peruvian politics by calling on voters to reject now President-elect Garcia at the ballot box. Garcia attributed his victory, according to the AP, to voters who "defeated the efforts by Mr Hugo Chavez to incorporate us in his strategy of expansion of the militarist and retrograde model he wants to implant in South America." And soon Mexican voters may elect a president who has sprinted ahead in the polls by portraying his opponent as a Hugo Chavez wannabe. Given the political thumping Chavez has received the last two weeks, he's probably ready for a nice vacation with his pal in Havana.