CARACAS, Wednesday August 27, 2008 | Update
Miranda state governor Diosdado Cabello downplayed on Wednesday
the criticism made by multiple sectors of the directives issued
by President Hugo Chávez by means of a recently expired
enabling law.
In his opinion, "there is nothing weird" in them and they
are just in addition to the 1999 Constitution.
Cabello said that those against the package of laws attempt
at electioneering as they try to tie the issue to the local
polls that will be held next November 23rd, or to a referendum
on a failed constitution reform that was held on December
2nd, 2007.
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."