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Article: Chavez's fast track.(President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is taking advantage of his popularity to push for a rapid drafting and approval of a new constitution)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 25, 1999
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Venezuela
CARACAS
IF THE "peaceful revolution" of President Hugo Chavez has a chosen instrument, it is the constituent assembly elected in July. Dominated by Mr Chavez's supporters, the assembly has intervened in the courts and Congress, completing the humiliation of his opponents, the politicians from the traditional parties who had governed Venezuela for four decades until he was elected last December. Yet now Mr Chavez seems to think that, when it comes to constitutional debate and political turmoil, Venezuela risks having too much of a good thing.
He had already urged the assembly to complete its main work of writing a new constitution ...