CARACAS, Wednesday August 06, 2008 | Update
Julio Borges, the national coordinator of opposition Primero
Justicia party (PJ), urged Venezuelans to reject the enactment
of 26 statutory decrees issued by President Hugo Chávez.
"We call upon the Venezuelan people to rebut any law contrary
to the Constitution. We are talking to retailers, workers,
to the Venezuelan people affected by these laws that violate
their constitutional rights. We already rejected these laws-decrees
last December 2," Borges said.
However, the leader of PJ said that his declaration was not
intended to ignite violence.
Borges stressed: "We are urging the institutions not to enforce
these laws. The Venezuelan people must reject this package
of laws. This is not a call to violence but a serious appeal."
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."