Venezuela: Maduro initiates gov't 'shake-up'

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela: Maduro initiates gov't 'shake-up'
Monday, July 7, 2014
By Zoe Clara Dutka

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on July 1 the need for “a complete and profound revolution within public administration”.

Maduro appointed planning minister Ricardo Menendez and vice-president Jorge Arreaza to facilitate a “restructuring” of the government system, to take place until July 15.
“From July 1 to 15, we’re going to shake-up the revolutionary government entirely, to change everything and authentically improve socialist efficiency in the Homeland Plan’s development,” Maduro said from the Caracas working-class neighbourhood Los Magallanes de Catia.

The Homeland Plan, drafted by former president Hugo Chavez, is a blueprint for Venezuelan development emphasising social equality, popular organising and economic growth within the framework of Latin American unity.

Menendez, who recently replaced Jorge Giordani as planning minister, spoke of his intent to further the struggle against corruption and the bureaucratisation of public services by heeding the claims and demands of the grassroots communal councils.
“Planning is not a subject for elites,” he said. “As the Bolivarian Constitution says, it is a protagonistic and participative democracy, it’s is a subject for the people.”

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[Bacchus4.0]

1. Just resign Maduro n/t

[Marksman_91]

2. Not sure why he's doing any of this

Another Giordani-gate would be terrible for his administration. Is he trying to filter out everyone that might pose a threat from within to him? He's starting to come off as paranoid

[Psephos]

3. This will work out well!

Based, of course, on an extrapolation of the Maduro experience so far.