The western comments to Chavez election victory seam to be cold and distant downplaying the fact that a new era is starting to develop in this part of the world .

For the first time the political shift will be visible with Chavez help .

It will be not good for everybody in Nord America but this is reality and we should work to tune up our vision in order to make the best out of the situation and maybe make a collaborator out of a political opponent.

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CARACAS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's left-wing party won in 17 of 20 state election races on Sunday, the electoral body said, but his candidates lost in the key states of Miranda and Zulia as well as in the capital Caracas.

The results of two other state elections have yet to be announced, an electoral official said. (Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Kieran Murray)