Chavez to be granted new powers
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Venezuela's parliament is to finalise a law granting President Chavez sweeping powers to rule by decree.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered the development of new anti-terror legislation, just days after one of the government&#39;s top prosecutors was killed by a car bomb.
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Venezuela's Congress on Wednesday gave approval to the first part of President Hugo Chavez's plan to rule by decree for 18 months as he tries to force through nationalizations key to his self-styled leftist revolution.
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Venezuela&#39;s President Hugo Chavez pressed for a new anti-terrorism proposal on Saturday after a car bomb killed a top state prosecutor investigating opponents accused of backing a 2002 coup against him.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Left-wing President Hugo Chavez was seeking a strong mandate for his self-styled revolution on Sunday as Venezuelans went to the polls to decide whether to re-elect the former soldier for six more years.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won international approval from supporters and detractors alike Monday on his decisive referendum victory over opponents trying to oust him.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez easily won a referendum on his rule and offered on  Monday to open a dialogue with his opponents, while vowing to  intensify the reforms at the heart of the nation's political  conflict.
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Venezuela's left-leaning government on Tuesday promised to grant poor farmers at least 100,000 plots of land carved from either state property or large private holdings, a step toward implementing a controversial agrarian reform law, a top agricultural official said.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has approved a new law that lets the government control all radio and television programming, despite opposition and international groups' concerns that it could be a threat to press freedom.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that as part of his deepening "revolution," he will enforce an agriculture law that allows the government to tax and expropriate idle lots. "We are going after idle land and are going to put it to work," said Chavez during his weekly television and radio show.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President Hugo Chavez easily won a referendum on his rule and  on Monday offered to open a dialogue with opponents while also  vowing to intensify the reforms at the heart of the nation's  political conflict.
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The victory for his leftist coalition brought two-party rule in Uruguay to an end for the first time in 170 years. Venezuela&#39;s left-wing President Hugo Chavez said Mr Vazquez&#39;s election heralded a step towards the shaping of a new South America.
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President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree, a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.
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CARACAS -- Fresh from victory and emboldened by a decisive mandate, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has the opportunity to extend an olive branch to a seething opposition and a suspicious US administration, but the rifts may have grown too deep to be mended.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reshuffled key members of his government, naming as foreign minister the current head of Venezuela's state-owned oil company and handing the oil minister the helm of the company.
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Laid-off Brazilian factory workers have their jobs back, Nicaraguan farmers are getting low-interest loans and Bolivian mayors can afford new health clinics, all thanks to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 16 -- President Hugo Chavez was declared the winner of a national recall referendum by a substantial margin on Monday, and said he had won a fresh mandate for the highly centralized, populist style of government that has stirred fierce opposition at home and irritated the Bush administration.