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CARACAS, Monday September 01, 2008 | Update
Chávez calls "ludicrous" collection of signatures apropos decree-laws
Politics
"Ludicrous!" Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spared
no adjectives to describe the collection of signatures on
the initiative of the opposition against the inclusion of
the contents of the failed constitutional reform in presidential
directives enacted via enabling law.
"What I fancy is to request another enabling law, to hammer
into them additional 26 laws," boasted Chávez during
the 319th edition of his TV and radio show "Aló, Presidente,"
aired from Santa Rosa, western Barinas state.
"It is just plain stupid. The Organization of American States
(OAS) has nothing to do with it. This mirrors a US-supportive,
unpatriotic way of thinking. What does the OAS has to do with
some laws issued in a sovereign manner? Enabling laws are
to the people's benefit."
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Works flying high
05:09 PM. Economy. If any country has cashed in on the Bolivarian revolution, that is Brazil, particularly the private companies of the southern neighbor. Over the past five years, it has been awarded contracts for works to be carried out in Venezuela for over USD 14 billion. This puts it as the first recipient of government-to-government contracts, that is, without bidding, since Hugo Chávez took office.
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