Venezuela Chavez OKs 26 Laws Using Special Presidential Powers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Dow Jones

Venezuela Chavez OKs 26 Laws Using Special Presidential Powers
(08-01-081127ET)

CARACAS -(Dow Jones)- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez issued more than two dozen laws by decree, including a much
anticipated reform to the banking sector law.

The president approved 26 laws Thursday, the day when his special presidential powers expired, exactly a year and a half
since Congress first gave Chavez the authority to issue laws without consultation, according to a copy of the official gazette.

Chavez's approvals include a number of changes to already existing legal frameworks, such as a reform of the law regulating
state-owned banks and a reform for Venezuela's entire financial sector.

The group of new laws also include rules for several state-owned banks, housing programs, the food industry and tourism.

The full text of each law was not immediately available and is expected to appear in an extraordinary official gazette issue
later Friday.



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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Gee, where'd you think Chavez got the idea he could do THAT in a democracy?

Oh, wait a minute . . . .

[pattmarty]

2. Well, at least he's going forward and not backwards like.......

[Tempest]

3. He got it from the Congress

since Congress first gave Chavez the authority to issue laws without consultation

[24HRrnr]

4. It would be nice to know

what he changed. Apparently the changes wont be made public for a couple of days to a week (depending on which report I read).

[Peace Patriot]

5. Just a reminder: These decree powers were granted to previous presidents.

It is a common practice in South America. Also, Venezuela's oil was nationalized BEFORE Chavez--he has just been able to negotiate a much better deal for Venezuela's people with the multinationals that operate in Venezuela. And the bank he just RE-nationalized was nationalized BEFORE Chavez.

There is no reason in the world why a democratic country shouldn't control its own major resources and financial institutions. Look what we get from OUR oil industry, for permitting them to exploit OUR oil resource--outrageous gas-gouging and an oil war against Iraq! And our patchwork regulatory system for financial institutions is obviously falling apart, it has become so manipulated under Bush, and may trigger Great Depression II.

The Bushwhacks hate Chavez because he is protecting Venezuela's sovereignty. They have sold ours away. That is the global corporate predator program. And they are having difficulty imposing it on South America because they have transparent vote counting in South America, and the people have been electing leftist leaders all over the continent, to stand up for them against global corporate predator plundering. It's that simple.

THROW DIEBOLD, ES&S AND ALL THESE 'TRADE SECRET' CODE ELECTION THEFT MACHINES INTO 'BOSTON HARBOR' *NOW*!

[subsuelo]

6. Thank you, once again, Peace Patriot

[David__77]

7. A lot of good has been done with these democratically-granted powers.

I only regret that the government has been so lenient with the domestic spies and fascists.

[Peace Patriot]

8. Yup, that's the risk you have to take with democracy. And Venezuela and South America

(except for Colombia) are taking that democratic risk. Their elected leaders are getting constantly hit with dirty tricks, black ops, coup plots, assassination plots, fascist secessionist plots, psyops, slander and all manner of Bush (our tax dollars)-funded treachery. But so far they've weathered it--and more leftists keep getting elected, most recently in Paraguay.

It shows ya the power of TRANSPARENT VOTE COUNTING. Ordinary people can, do and will see through the fascist bullshit on corporate TV. They saw through it here--Feb 03, all polls, 55% to 60% of the American people opposed the invasion of Iraq. You don't hear that stat very often. But guess what? In the same month as the Iraq War Resolution--Oct 02--the fuckwads also passed the so-called "Help America Vote Act"--in order to privatize our vote counting system, and install 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY software in voting systems all over the country. The IWR guaranteed an unjust war. HAVA provided the means to shove the unjust war down the throats of the American people in 2004 and 2006.

Now they can smugly sit back in their (s)elected offices, with earplugs in. They've taken the risk out of democracy