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| Cardinal Urosa Savino: Enabling law threatens the country peace |
| 2011-01-01 |
| [El Universal] The new package of laws recently approved by the Venezuelan National Assembly is unprecedented, according to Jorge Cardinal Urosa Savino. "It is something that should be meditated and I say it to government officials, because they are causing an unbearable situation of disrespect of rights and the people's will." Urosa made an appeal to rectify for the sake of social peace. "Both the enabling law and the amendment to the regulations on domestic affairs and sessions at the National Assembly are intended to make the legislature null and void and concentrate all the legislative capacity in the hands of the President of the Republic." "This is certainly undemocratic, because it nullifies and dismisses the people's will which was expressed on September 26 and threatens the country peace." The cardinal is afraid that the enabling law will finish the current status of deputies. "People elected there, both of the government and the opposition, will just be nullified by such a law and the changes in the regulations on domestic affairs and sessions." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 won't prevent the economic collapse. Inflation's 27% right now and is expected to double due to the recent (second) devaluation in 2010. Imports become too expensive, power grid's failing, and his oil's sulfurous crap that pretty much only we can crack right now. How does he keep the lid on when the riots start? Cracking heads? I expect he'll issue ration cards and only Chavistas will get them. Venezuela will have an interesting 2011 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-01 17:59 |
| #1 Enabling law worked for Hitler, why not for the Venezuelan despot? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2011-01-01 17:28 |