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Article: Venezuelan Voters Give Broad Support to Chavez's New Constitution.(Brief Article)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- December 17, 1999
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Venezuelan voters on Wednesday approved a new 350-article constitution that significantly changes the governance of the country with the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere.
Seventy-two percent of voters voted for the document, which was drafted in just over three months by a special constitutional assembly elected in July (TOD July27,p1).
News of the major political victory for President Hugo Chavez, however, temporarily took a back seat to the torrential rains and floods that afflicted the country only hours after polls closed Wednesday night. Many employees of foreign oil companies stayed home Thursday as authorities struggled to cope with ...