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Venezuela top court endorses inauguration postponement; massive ‘legitimization’ rally on Thursday

Wednesday, January 9th 2013 - 19:46 UTC
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Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal constitutional chamber endorsed the postponement of Hugo Chavez inauguration scheduled for Thursday and ruled that the cancer-stricken leader remained as the constitutional president of the country since he was re-re-elected and was granted a leave of absence for medical reasons by the National Assembly. Read full article

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  • reality check

    Lets hold a rally, that'll make it legal. What a laugh!

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    They are just manipulating the laws for a dead man!

    ¡Que quilombo! (As they would say in Argentina.

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    And the coup is almost complete.

    No elected president - check!
    Unelected official acting as president - check!
    Parliament acquiescence - check!
    Courts acquiescence - check!
    Armed forces backing the power grab - check!

    Now we just need a rally to give it a nice veneer of legitimacy.

    Chavez may have once ranted about an attempted coup? But his wonderful constitution actually enabled one much more easily.

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Ineresting discussion on France24, pro Chaves academic producing his little blue book, which he states all Venezualians carry. Talk about shades of Chairman Moa.

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ptolemy

    What need of a constitution? You just need a dictator and a circus to run Venezuela. (Argentina, take notes on the clowns and their make-up!)

    Jan 09th, 2013 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    Crissy Kirchner about to be named next president of Venazuela

    Jan 10th, 2013 - 12:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Its amazing what corruption can achieve, is it not,
    Don’t like the rules, that’s ok, we just change them,
    Is this the new south American democracy in action.

    Perhaps he can arrange for CFK to stand in as temporary president until such time as ??

    Well anything is possible, is it not ??
    .

    Jan 10th, 2013 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • expbrit

    My Spanish may be a bit rusty, and please feel free to correct me, but doesn't “Diosdado Cabello” translate as “God-given Hair”?

    It's obviously a divine message. Chavez isn't coming back and He should be President.

    @4 Shades of Gaddafi's little Green Book :-) I still have my copy obtained when working in Libya back in the early 80s. I may even get around to reading it one of these days :)

    Jan 10th, 2013 - 01:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ayayay

    http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/03/venezuela-post-chavez/chavez-will-leave-behind-an-economic-crisis
    Interesting that Venezuela is now a net importer of oil, like Argentina.

    Jan 10th, 2013 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Venezuela has always imported petro from the USA because they lack refinery production to meet their needs.

    Jan 10th, 2013 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CJvR

    So they practically give away gas bought at world market cost, no wonder Venezuela is going down in flames.

    Jan 10th, 2013 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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