CARACAS, Wednesday August 27, 2008 | Update
Oscar Pérez, a member of opposition Comando Nacional
de la Resistencia (National Resistance Command, CNR), called
on Wednesday to a rally next Saturday against the package
of laws, or the 26 decree-laws enacted by the Executive Office
early August.
Additionally, he urged people to "set their hands onto the
forms that will be forwarded to the Organization of American
States (OAS) against these laws that run counter to the National
Constitution."
Further, he does not think that the National Assembly will
be able to discuss a new telecommunications law which, in
his opinion, "would restrain Venezuelans' freedom of expression."
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."