It was voting for Venezuela's presidential election, for which thousands of expatriates living in the southern United States cast ballots at the convention center in New Orleans on Sunday."The love of democracy the love for the country we want for our children moves us so," explained Clara Fleischer, an expatriate voter. Flaescher made it a point to express her contempt for incumbent socialist President Hugo Chavez, which many Venezuelan expatriate voters in New Orleans shared with her: "Most of us who are (in the United States) are here because of the tyrant in power in Venezuela."Officials estimated that, to cast ballots, some 8,000 expatriate Venezuelan voters traveled to New Orleans by airplane, bus or car from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.It is also unclear whether the virus is passed between people primarily through cough droplets and whether those need to be airborne, or can be on surfaces, for instance. The extremely dangerous SARS virus was brought under control a decade ago by killing off caged animals that had been a primary source of transmission, but killing all the infected camels would be impossible, officials have said.. |