Ailing Chavez activates Venezuela political council
Ailing Chavez activates Venezuela political council
AFP May 3, 2012, 5:47 pm
CARACAS (AFP) - President Hugo Chavez, in Cuba for cancer treatment, named key members of a Council of State Wednesday led by his vice president, which some analysts see as a potential transitional body.
The president, staffed the council, a consultative body led by Vice President Elias Jaua that had existed only on paper since the 1999 Constitution, raising eyebrows as Venezuelans fret about their leader's health.
Members include Jaua; Ambassador to the OAS Roy Chaderton; UN human rights council envoy German Mundarain; writer Luis Britto Garcia and Admiral Carlos Rafael Giacopini, the state-run Official Gazette reported.
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"Everyone knows the president's health is delicate, so his setting up the Council of State now cannot be good news,"
political analyst John Magdaleno told AFP.
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