Venezuela president granted sweeping powers

[Judi Lynn]

28. DU'ers, and trolls, have been discussing Venezuela's enabling law

here for years and years.

You won't see the trolls finally putting a sock in it, and sliming their ways back to their caves and start licking themselves prior to a nice long nap until a huge country from the North installs another fascist, torture-loving mass murdering, larcenous, narcissistic sociopath like Augusto Pinochet, after launching a successful coup next time against the Venezuelan President.

Here's a thread on the "decree power" which is only one of so very many already posted here. Skim through it to see all the things which have already been written to understand no matter how things change, they seem to stay the same:

Venezuela assembly gives Chavez decree powers
Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Venezuela's parliament gave President Hugo Chavez decree powers for 18 months on Friday, outraging opposition parties that accused him of turning South America's biggest oil producer into a dictatorship.

The move consolidated the firebrand socialist leader's hold on power after nearly 12 years in office, and raised the prospect of a fresh wave of nationalizations as the former paratrooper seeks to entrench his self-styled "revolution."

Chavez had asked for the fast-track powers for one year, saying he needed them to deal with a national emergency caused by floods that drove nearly 140,000 people from their homes.

But the Assembly, which is dominated by loyalists from his Socialist Party, decided to extend them for a year and a half.

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