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Washington Post:Venezuela's lame-duck, pro-government congress has given temporary one-man rule to President Hugo Chavez, less than three weeks before a newly elected National Assembly with enough government foes to hamper some of his socialist initiatives takes office.Chavez is so weak and his persuasive powers are so weak that he is unable to get many things he wants through a legislature so he gets the current one to approve in advance his policies. It will only make Venezuela poorer and weaker as a country. It will also be more corrupt.
Congress approved laws that give the state more control over the economy and granted Chavez decree powers that permit him to rule until mid-2012 without input from legislators.
With those decree powers, which lawmakers passed Friday, Venezuela enters a new stage in Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution," in which analysts say an increasingly erratic but powerful president consolidates control over a country in deep recession.
Chavez's actions, which undermine the new legislature elected in September, have been strongly condemned by government adversaries.
"This castrates the next National Assembly," Teodoro Petkoff, a former guerrilla turned newspaper editor, said of the measures in a Saturday column. "Chavez has begun to take the path of dictatorship."
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