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Chávez: "I move back in 2013
if I lose in next referendum” |
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| The Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez jokes with journalists assembled in the presidential palace of Miraflores, after writing in his column that it will go away of the political life if next month it loses the referendum. |
Fabiola Sánchez
Caracas / AP
The president Hugo Chávez affirmed on Thursday, the 22nd that of losing the referendum on the constitutional amendment, which foresees the unlimited presidential reelection, will go away of the political life on having concluded his order in 2013.
With qualifying five-peseta coins against his opponents and opened praises to the proposal of constitutional amendment, Chávez made début on Thursday as columnist in the local press, in the middle of the electoral campaign for the referendum on the amendment that is foreseen for February 15.
In the column, which it titled like "The lines of Chávez" in memory of his juvenile times like baseball player, the Venezuelan chief did hard criticism against his opponents whom it qualified of "colonialist", and of representing "the opposite to the homeland".
Chávez exalted the proposal of constitutional amendment making sure that of being approved in the referendum "the homeland will be imposed, the Independence".
" If most of you, Venezuelans and Venezuelans, support the amendment with 'yes', then it is possible that I could continue at the head of the rudder beyond 2013", he made sure.
The leader admitted that of losing the consultation "I will go away in another February, that of 2013", on having concluded his presidential order.
" There is no any more way to achieve the Venezuelan independence that the national revolution. There is no any more way for the native nobility that this one, already tackled, of the socialism; our socialism bolivariano: The Socialistic Democracy! Another way, for which they want to take us the colonialist pitiyanquis, would condemn to our country to the disability, to the smallness and to the historical grave", he added.
The Department of Communication said in a writing that Chávez will publish his column on Tuesdays, Thursday and Sundays of every week, in 28 private newspapers – the regional national one and the rest - emulating this way to his Cuban allied strait, Fidel Castro.
The government did not add if the publication will be a full notice or if the newspapers will spread the column of free form.
Eleazar Díaz Rangel, the director of the of the capital newspaper Last News, said to the AP that his way decided to give a "journalistic space" to Chávez of free form.
" With us they spoke (the government) and we put a few conditions, which age the space, how many characters", he added.
Díaz Rangel informed that he agreed, part of his publishing politics, "to give Last News like the same space to the opposition", which will have also a column of opinion that will be published on Mondays, Wednesday and Friday.
The initiative
The National Assembly integrated mostly by Allied Forces of Chávez, approved last week the proposal of constitutional amendment of five articles about the Constitution that foresees the unlimited reelection of all the charges of popular election.
Of the modification is approved in the Great Letter in the referendum foreseen for February 15, the way would be opened so that Chávez, whose order concludes in February, 2013, could choose to a new reelection.
Chávez was elect for the first time in December, 1998. After the constituent process of 2000, the chief was ratified in his charge at the end of this year to govern for six years.
In December, 2006 Chávez achieved the reelection for an additional period that concludes in February, 2013.
The current Constitution only allows the immediate reelection for an additional period.
Guatemala
Strong earthquake
An earthquake of 5,1 grades shook the north of Guatemala on Thursday, the 22nd without damages being brought or hurt immediately, reported the authorities. "Our delegate in Huehuetenango brought to us that there had been a movement but there is no damages information, injured men or dead persons", affirmed the spokesman of the National Coordinating committee for the Reduction of Disasters, David de León.
Ecuador
They cut imports
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Brazil
Work places get lost
Brazil lost 654.000 works in December as the international financial crisis beat to the biggest economy of Latin America, informed on Monday, the 19th the Department of Labour. The monthly loss was the worst than record is had from May, 1999. The most affected sectors were those of industry, agriculture and construction.
Peru
The new minister
The Secretary of the Treasury, Luis Valdivieso, resigned on Monday, the 19th, to take another vacancy of "high responsibility", and immediately it was replaced by the one who was his predecessor, Luis Carranza. The president Alan García took swear in Carranza on Monday in the evening in Palace of Government.
Mexico
It confiscates pseudoephedrine
The authorities seized in a port of the Mexican Pacific Ocean of almost three tons of pseudoephedrine in tablets inside a container proceeding from South Korea, he informed on Thursday, the 22nd a joint bulletin of the Attorney general's office of the Republic (PGR) and the secretariats of the Defense, Marina and Public Safety.
Venezuela
They fall down you reserve
The international reservations suffered a fall of 29,8 per cent, which took them to 29.470 million dollars, then that the Central Bank specified the transference to the government of the reservations "excedentarias". The international reservations suffered in eve a decrease for 12.543 million dollars.
Costa Rica
Less divorces
About 10.351 couples got divorced in Costa Rica during 2008, a decrease of 5 % with regard to the previous year. In October the biggest divorces quantity registered, with 1.118, it detailed a report of the Office of Inscriptions of the Supreme Court spread Thursday.
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