Page last updated at 09:31 GMT, Monday, 16 February 2009  Tough
times ahead for Hugo Chavez  By Will Grant BBC News, Caracas
President Chavez supporter President Chevez supporters had
reason to celebrate a crucial victory  For those supporters who
gathered outside the Miraflores presidential palace to hear
President Hugo Chavez's victory address, there was extra feeling
in their famous chant: "Uh-Ah, Chavez no se va" - "Chavez is
going nowhere."  When President Chavez came out on the balcony
to greet them, he was jubilant.  Without a constitutional change
he would have had to stand down when his term expires in 2013;
instead he had secured the right to stand again for office in
the next elections due in 2012, and elections beyond.  "I am
ready!" He told them. "With today's victory we start the third
historical cycle of the Bolivarian revolution, from 2009 to
2019."  This has been a crucial victory for Venezuela's
president. He had a lot riding on the outcome, both personally
and politically.  He told voters