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Aug 10, 2008

Chavez enacts new laws with iron fist

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has enacted an aggressive package of 26 laws increasing the state's power over the economy ahead of key regional elections.

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IhateBS

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Aug 10, 2008
 
Hahaha, so what is new? Could not win in a clean vote so he enacts and decrees laws that his puppet congress gave him. Hahahaha, just the beginning. This dude is smart and taking his time.

“The Truth”

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Miami, FL

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Aug 12, 2008
 
IhateBS wrote:
Hahaha, so what is new? Could not win in a clean vote so he enacts and decrees laws that his puppet congress gave him. Hahahaha, just the beginning. This dude is smart and taking his time.
This one is my favorite:“One piece of legislation warned ominously that those responsible for food shortages, speculation and inflationary pressure with political motives” will be sanctioned with prison sentences of up to three years.” Meaning that ain’t gonna be no more food shortages caused by the opposition through the private sector. Hahaha..
The Enabling Law and Chávez’s decrees are in accordance with the national constitution, which was passed by popular vote in 1999, Chávez’s first year in office. Many of the concepts of the constitutional reforms proposed in 2007 are present in the decreed laws, because many of them were originally written with the expectation that the reform would be approved by voters, but the laws were later changed so as to be in line with the current constitution. So i say to you that your predictions are obsolete.
Odessean

Midland, TX

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Aug 12, 2008
 
So, tell us...absolote power and a rubber stamp congress will be obsolete too? Will it matter when Chavez implements his desires for a socialist (communist) system that it will not matter what anyone says or express? What does a Congress (the majority) matter when they go along with everything Chavez wants to implement. It just does not amaze me that you continue to defend a system that you do not live under.
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