Chavez gets unprecedented powers in Venezuela

Thursday, February 1, 2007

CARACAS, Venezuela -- 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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