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La Lista Tascon es lista de las personas que habían firmado una planilla para poder activar el referéndum revocatorio contra del gobierno de Hugo Chávez, realizado en agosto 2004. Si bien Tascón declaró que la lista había sido comprada a un alto jefe de la asociación civil Súmate, declaraciones suyas previas indicaban que había fotocopiado las firmas con permiso del Consejo Nacional Electoral durante cuatro días.

El CNE habría facilitado estas firmas por solicitud directa del Presidente Hugo Chávez, justificando las acciones de Tascón como medio de demostrar el "intento de fraude" de la oposición.Tascón subió la base de datos de dicha lista en su página web personal y así las personas interesadas podían poner su número de cédula de identidad y así saber si estaban en dicha lista o no.

Tascón alegó que la lista estaba constituida para poner en evidencia el fraude de la oposición "clonando" firmas; como por ejemplo, plasmando firmas de terceras personas sin su consentimiento, haciendo aparecer firmas de personas fallecidas y otros fraudes de similares características.

La oposición criticó duramente esta lista considerándola como una manera de saber quien firmó, y posteriormente tomar represalias contra los trabajadores en las empresas del Estado y sus filiales que hayan firmado contra el presidente Chávez.

En el 2005 el mismo presidente Chávez reconoció lo inconveniente de la lista dando instrucciones para "enterrar definitivamente la Lista Tascón", y posteriormente fue removida la base de datos de la página web del diputado, sin embargo la oposición sigue denunciando la existencia activa de la lista, hablándose además de una nueva denominada "Lista Maisanta".

The existence of systematic political prosecution in Venezuela, as established in article 7 of the Rome Statute, has been been argued for some time now. Apologists of Hugo Chavez maintain that it is nonsense, just another cry wolf allegation against the 'democratically elected' leader. Many people have complained about the existence of a list, compiled by chavista assemblyman Luis Tascon with a group of collaborators, that is widely utilised by government officials at all institutional levels to deny passports, contracts, IDs, employments, benefits, etc.
Not only did Hugo Chavez order and knew about the existence of the database, the president concludes the memo by asking that his request be given full legal consideration (la presente se hace a los fines legales consiguientes). Thus Tascon put together, with the assistance and leniency of Venezuela's National Electoral Council's (CNE) director, this Venezuelan version of McCarthyism that could be consulted by the public from March 2004 on the website of Assemblyman Tascon; a revised version was distributed on July 6th of the same year. Hugo Chavez admitted in live television that the list had fulfilled its purposes -he also praised Jorge Verstrynge's book 1 hour and 25 min. into his dominical charade of Sunday 10th of April- expressing that civil servants ought to stop using it against those who signed to petition for a recall referendum on his mandate. What is more, the database was a key element of the official effort mounted by Chavez with tax payer's money to win the recall referendum known as "Misión Florentino". The software programme that comes with the list is called MaiSanta, probably borrowing its name from Comando Maisanta, which was the chavista political campaign prior to the recall referendum. Also with the package there is a rather long power point presentation geared at electoral officials supportive of Chavez.

Researching a bit about this topic I was able to find, download the list via emule (just search for "lista de tascon") and install the software in my PC. It contains details of 12.394.109 citizens, that is to say Venezuela's entire electoral register up until July 6 2004. The images speak for themselves. The questions: what would happen should any of the leaders of the democratic nations of the world be caught ordering the construction of such database? What would happen to the electoral institutions of any European country and its officials should they be caught passing critical information with respect to the political tendencies of the electorate to politicians of a given ruling party?