The Real News network's excellent report on the Chavez health crisis in Venezuela

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7. That's absurd

"The National Assembly has the power to grant the President leave for 90 says, and extend...

...to another 90 days. It's been mentioned numerous times in these discussions."

He's not the president anymore. His term is over.

It doesn't matter whether the 180 days provision is specified by the Constitution or was enacted by the National Assembly. It is THE LAW OF THE LAND. Not everything that our federal government does is specified in the U.S. Constitution (by a long shot). Legislatures INTERPRET the Constitution and WRITE LAWS accordingly

But it is, specifically, in the constitution. The constitution wasn't vague on the matter. It anticipated exactly this situation and provided a very precise solution.

I only skimmed the rest of what you wrote, because it is not relevant. The constitution has a precise and exact mechanism for this, and the Chavistas chose to ignore it. You don't care because you are an "ends justify the means" person.