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Chavez to Get Powers to Remake Venezuela
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ
Associated Press Writer
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A Congress wholly loyal to President Hugo Chavez met at a downtown plaza Wednesday to give the Venezuelan leader authority to enact sweeping measures by presidential decree.
Hundreds of Chavez supporters wearing red - the color of Venezuela's ruling party - gathered in the plaza, waving signs reading "Socialism is democracy!" as lawmakers read out the proposed bill giving the president special powers for 18 months to transform 11 broadly defined areas, including the economy, energy and defense.
"The people of Venezuela, not just the National Assembly, are giving this enabling power to the president of the republic," said congresswoman Iris Varela, addressing the crowd next to the National Assembly.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VENEZUELA_CHAVEZ?SITE=KYWIN&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Yep the true reason for bush's hatred of Hugo comes out at last.
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ
Associated Press Writer
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A Congress wholly loyal to President Hugo Chavez met at a downtown plaza Wednesday to give the Venezuelan leader authority to enact sweeping measures by presidential decree.
Hundreds of Chavez supporters wearing red - the color of Venezuela's ruling party - gathered in the plaza, waving signs reading "Socialism is democracy!" as lawmakers read out the proposed bill giving the president special powers for 18 months to transform 11 broadly defined areas, including the economy, energy and defense.
"The people of Venezuela, not just the National Assembly, are giving this enabling power to the president of the republic," said congresswoman Iris Varela, addressing the crowd next to the National Assembly.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VENEZUELA_CHAVEZ?SITE=KYWIN&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Yep the true reason for bush's hatred of Hugo comes out at last.